单词 | sekach |
释义 | sekachn.α. 1800s–1900s seacatch (plural seacatchie), 1800s–1900s seecatch (plural seecatchie), 1900s seacatches (plural). β. 1800s– sekach, 1800s– sekatch, 1800s– sikatch, 1900s– sikatches (plural), 1900s sikatchie (plural). Now rare. The mature full-grown male of the northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Ostaridae (eared seal) > genus Callorhinus (fur-seal) > male or young pup1815 bachelor1874 holluschickie1874 sekach1875 1875 H. W. Elliott Rep. Condition of Affairs Alaska 109 A seecatch cannot live less than thirty years. 1881 H. W. Elliott Rep. Seal Island Alaska (1884) 42 The ‘seecatchie’ which have held the harems from the beginning to the end of the season, leave [etc.]. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 71 The reckless poacher [of seals] knows What time the scarred see-catchie lead their sleek seraglios. 1914 Investig. Fur-Seal Industry Alaska (Hearings U.S. Committee on Expenditures., 63rd Congr., 2nd Sess.) 38 Young males..then take their places..on the rookeries as 6 and 7 year old ‘seecatchie’. 1984 L. T. Black & R. H. Geoghegan tr. I. Veniaminov Notes on Islands Unalashka District ii. iii. ii. 337 When a female hauls out, the sekach meets her with a kiss. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1875 |
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