| 单词 | running season |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunning season running season n. North American (a) = rutting season at rutting n.1 Compounds 1; (b) the season during which certain animals move from one region to another. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [noun] > migration > season of running time1658 running season1807 1807 D. R. Preston Wonders of Creation I. 185 As it was the running season of the elk, the whistling of that animal was heard in all the variety which the echoes could afford it. 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians I. 249 The ‘running season’..is the time when they [sc. buffalo] congregate into such masses in some places, as to blacken the prairies for miles together. 1855 E. J. Lewis Amer. Sportsman vi. 77 The habit of partial emigration that it [sc. the partridge] exhibits every autumn at the running season. 1882 A. Daunt Three Trappers x. 166 The running season seems to be about November. 1901 Recreation Jan. 27 It was yet early in the running season, and we thought the game would be there in the morning. 1972 Mem. Soc. Amer. Archaeology No. 26 86 The rutting season, or running season..began in July and reached its height in August. 1990 A. Sidney & J. Cruickshank in J. Cruickshank Life lived like Story i. ii. 46 Leave your horns once in a while. Don't use them all the time, just in running season. < as lemmas |
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