| 单词 | root digger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroot digger root digger n. now historical (a) a member of any of various North American Indian peoples with a staple diet of roots and tubers, esp. a member of certain Numic-speaking peoples of the Great Basin (cf. digger n. 2c); (b) an implement for digging up edible roots, spec. one used by North American Indians. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > [noun] > Indian of specific type of tribe Rocky Mountain Indian1801 root digger1831 mound builder1833 digger1837 treaty Indian1876 non-treaty1877 1831 W. Gordon Let. 3 Oct. in A. H. Abel Chardon's Jrnl. at Fort Clark (1932) 346 Many of these [Snake Indians (Shoshone)] go by the name which signifies Root digger, because they live by digging roots. 1833 N. J. Wyeth First Jrnl. 30 Apr. in Corr. (1899) 192 About 100 of them [sc. women] with their root diggers..went out to get roots. 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 420 Root-diggers are either made of horns, or of crooked sticks pointed and hardened by fire. 1947 B. A. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 432 ‘Root-digger’..describes all the tribes, most of them superior tribes, that lived in localities where there were staple crops of edible roots and bulbs. 2000 S. L. Smith Reimagining Indians v. 111 She talked about a sixty-year-old woman who fended off a Lakota war party, armed only with her root digger, while singing her medicine song. < as lemmas |
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