| 单词 | riding season |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriding season C2. attributive. Chiefly Scottish (now Orkney). Designating a period of time during which animals mate or are put together to mate, as riding season, riding time; cf. ride v. 20a. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (1967) at Ride v. records this sense as still in use in Orkney in 1968. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > mating > season seasona1425 riding seasonc1425 belling1553 breeding-time1711 c1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Vesp. B.xii) (1904) 11 Whan she goth in hure loue þat hunters callen ryding tyme. a1669 Skene Agric. MS in Agric. Hist. Rev. (1963) 11 70 They milk the yowis no longer then Michaelmes whilk is the ridinge tyme, for Michaelmes and Hallowmes is the tyme that yowis be ridden. ?1772 Young Coalman's Courtship to Creelwife's Daughter (ed. 3) ii. 1 As utrageous as ony ram at riding time. 1786 R. Burns Poems 65 Warn him ay at ridin time, To stay content wi' yowes at hame. 1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 84 in Farm-rep. Both at riding-time, and at the subsequent lambing. 1831 P. Sellar County of Sutherland 83 in Farm-rep. During the ‘riding’ season. ?1840 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. (1843) 1 335 It will also be prudent to begin the riding season not only at such a period as may consist with a good supply of nutritious feed, but with a view to the climate. < as lemmas |
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