单词 | stall-fed |
释义 | stall-fedadj. a. Of an animal to be fattened: Kept and fed in a stall. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of pigs > [adjective] > fattened in enclosure franked1466 frank-fed?1545 stall-feda1555 the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [adjective] > fed > fed in specific way pen-fedc1400 stall-feda1555 mast-fed1566 grass-fed1575 bean-fed1590 soiled1608 corn-fed1787 summered1804 pair-fed1951 zero-grazed1958 a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 326 If you were for the Faire, you shoulde bee staulfed and wante no weale. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.iv For Easter, at Martilmas hange vp a biefe: for pease fed and stall fed, play pickpurse the thiefe. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xiv. 161 One beast, (the most fat, and best Of all the Stall-fed). 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 173/2 We call a fat Ox, a stale feed Ox. 1777 Mass. Statute 25 Jan. Stall-fed beef, well fatted, at fourpence a pound. 1890 Farmer's Gaz. 4 Jan. 1/1 Stall-fed cattle will now be on full keep. b. transferred. Of a person. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > fed or nourished > well fed or nourished fatc893 well-nourishedc1300 full-feedinga1382 well-feda1398 feasted1440 well-nurturedc1450 home-fed1573 corn-fed1576 stall-fed1589 repleted1592 well-feasted1611 high-fed1612 succulent1673 corn-fed1787 1589 R. Greene Spanish Masquerado sig. A3v Monkes, Friers,..stall-fed with ease and gluttony. 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes i. vi. 67 in Wks. II You shall haue stall-fed Doctors, cram'd Diuines Make loue to her. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 51 We saw a man..so stall-fed as that his legs were not able to support and carry his body. 1897 W. James Will to Believe 43 Times..when stall-fed officials of an established church could prove by the valves in the heart [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.a1555 |
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