| 单词 | sheep-run |
| 释义 | > as lemmassheep-run sheep-run n. originally Australian = sheep-walk n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture heafc1525 sheep-gate1535 herdwick1537 fold-course1538 wether gang1561 sheep-walk1586 sheep's course1623 sheep-weald1634 sheep-rake1653 sleighta1697 sheep-leasea1722 sheep-sleighta1722 hirsel1822 sheep-run1826 sheep-heaf1844 shepherd land1892 heft1960 1826 Goldie in Bischoff Van Diemen's Land (1832) 157 [The land near Circular Head] is..a good sheep run. 1851 W. Fox Six Colonies of New Zealand i. 27 The..plain…is surrounded by hills which afford excellent sheep-runs. 1862 J. W. Colenso Pentateuch I. 59 In Australia, some sheep-runs are estimated to carry one sheep to an acre. 1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling i. 8 The names painted on so many of the railway stations were merely the names of large sheep runs. 1936 A. Russell Gone Nomad iv. 23 I even learnt to operate on the lambs myself, and to perform the many other jobs that combine to make up the yard work on a sheep run. < as lemmas |
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