单词 | spawner |
释义 | spawnern. 1. a. A female fish, esp. at spawning time. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > female spawner1601 hen1747 rown1796 rawn1877 the world > animals > fish > [noun] > female > at spawning time spawner1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 264 The spawner, when the time serueth for generation, followeth after the male. 1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 90 The Romanes..used none but in-land Fish-ponds, storing them with Spawners of the larger size. 1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 317 As the milter, by a natural instinct, follows the spawner. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 5 With a few Milters and Spawners,..a whole country may be stocked in a short time. 1819 Sporting Mag. 4 266 In stocking ponds, put from three to five spawners to one milter. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 59 Many late spawners are occupied with family cares until the last of July. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > as producer of offspring spawner1622 1622 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Phylaster (new ed.) iv. 53 Yes, you may doe well to spare your Lady bedfellow, and her you may keepe for a spawner. 1675 C. Cotton Burlesque upon Burlesque 38 By no means meddle with that Spawner. For if thou dost,..A graceless Child will be begot. 2. One who, or that which, spawns, produces, etc., in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > production > that which produces gendererc1384 bearera1387 bringerc1386 engendererc1390 producera1513 forthbringer1546 breeder1572 productor1584 productrice1585 spawner16.. brancher1610 procreanta1616 producent1622 productrix1630 generant1635 generator1637 productive1642 procurator1647 pregnatress1651 generatrix1657 yielder1733 productress1751 16.. in S. Hartlib Legacy (1655) 117 The least Spawners from the root will grow. Any twigs cut from the body will grow. 1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions i. (1702) 15 Your corrupt Judges are the great Spawners that supply our Lake. 1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) II. ii. 58 Every one knew Lord de Clifford.., a spawner of Whig pamphlets, and a crack political writer. 3. A spawn-collector ( Cent. Dict. 1891). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.16.. |
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