英语词汇“sitting nest”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

C2. attributive, with the sense ‘of or relating to the action of birds in sitting on eggs so as to incubate and hatch them; designed or used for this purpose’, as sitting box, sitting nest, etc.See also sitting room n. 1b.

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1573 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 350 For chargys aboute the swanes..at the syttynge tyme and uppynge tyme.

1803 C. Taylor Script. Illustr. Nat. Hist. 41 Birds during their sitting time are ever clamorous.

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 87 Laying and sitting boxes may be placed at either side of the building.

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 89 The partition between the laying and sitting apartments.

1854 L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry 424 The construction of sitting-nests on one side of the..night-house.

1925 Rhode Island State College Extension Bull. Apr. 5 Place the sitting coops in a secluded place and if out of doors or in a large room put a slatted run in front to prevent the sitters from wandering away when they come off for food.

1959 Times 31 Mar. 1/7 (advt.) The Cotswold ‘Two-Way’ Sitting Box is the answer to every keeper's prayer.

2012 N. Murtagh Backyard Duck Bk. xii. 135 This suggests that ducklings grow accustomed to their mother's sounds during her sitting period.

单词	sitting nest
释义	> as lemmas sitting nest C2. attributive, with the sense ‘of or relating to the action of birds in sitting on eggs so as to incubate and hatch them; designed or used for this purpose’, as sitting box, sitting nest, etc.See also sitting room n. 1b. ΚΠ 1573 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 350 For chargys aboute the swanes..at the syttynge tyme and uppynge tyme. 1803 C. Taylor Script. Illustr. Nat. Hist. 41 Birds during their sitting time are ever clamorous. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 87 Laying and sitting boxes may be placed at either side of the building. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 89 The partition between the laying and sitting apartments. 1854 L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry 424 The construction of sitting-nests on one side of the..night-house. 1925 Rhode Island State College Extension Bull. Apr. 5 Place the sitting coops in a secluded place and if out of doors or in a large room put a slatted run in front to prevent the sitters from wandering away when they come off for food. 1959 Times 31 Mar. 1/7 (advt.) The Cotswold ‘Two-Way’ Sitting Box is the answer to every keeper's prayer. 2012 N. Murtagh Backyard Duck Bk. xii. 135 This suggests that ducklings grow accustomed to their mother's sounds during her sitting period. extracted from sittingn. < as lemmas
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