单词 | shetlander |
释义 | Shetlandern. 1. A native or inhabitant of the Shetland Islands. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland > Scottish islands Orcadian1614 Zetlander1614 Hebridean1632 Shetlander1690 Orkneyman1730 St. Kildan1764 Sheltie1888 Lewisman1927 1690 tr. G. Buchanan Hist. Scotl. i. 37 The..Schetlanders [L. Hethlandicis] live after the same manner, as the Islanders of the Orcades do, save that as to their Houshold Provision, they are a little more hardy. 1769 J. Robertson Jrnl. 2 June in D. M. Henderson & J. H. Dickson Naturalist in Highlands (1994) iv. 144 The Shetlanders weigh every thing capable of being weighed, on Stil-yards or Pundlers. 1807 J. Hall Trav. Scotl. II. 616 All the labour of the poor Shetlander is under the controul of the landholder. 1882 Miss Gordon-Cumming in 19th Cent. Apr. 573 The Shetlanders have a..singularly descriptive word to express it. 1914 in A. W. Johnston & A. Johnston Old-lore Misc. VII. ii. 74 Shetlanders preferred both fish, flesh and fowl ‘reested’ rather than pickled. 1975 A. Deyell My Shetland 79 A Shetlander, Matthew, who had married a sooth wife, Meg, was living in Glasgow. 2015 Scots Mag. Apr. 81/3 Marian, a native Shetlander, celebrates the food that is caught, reared and grown in Shetland. 2. A Shetland pony. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > Shetland pony Sheltie1612 Shetland horsea1757 Shetland pony1769 shelt1774 Shetlander1826 Shetland1834 1826 Sporting Mag. Mar. 293/2 The first of that [Eastern] blood came in with the Crusades, then crossed with the small mountain horse or pony, which has produced among the Welsh and Shetlanders..their great capability of enduring fatigue, so peculiar to the Eastern horse. 1875 S. Sidney Bk. Horse iv. 85 The best Shetlanders come from Unst. 1885 E. King Mem. Rev. D. King ii. 11 His uncle gave him a pony—a small jet black Shetlander. 1900 County Gentleman 23 June 793/3 Eleven Shetlanders were shown in the two classes set apart for this breed. 1980 S. Chaplin Bachelor Uncle 70 This 'un's from Cumberland, this un's from Dartmoor; him in the corner's a Shetlander. 2009 B. Doyle tr. J. Geeraerts Public Prosecutor ii. 23 The pony was a Shetlander with a bushy mane and distrustful expression. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1690 |
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