| 单词 | body horse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbody horse body horse n. (also body hoss) now chiefly regional a shaft horse, a wheel horse; (also) a horse in the middle of a larger team. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > team of > horse(s) attached to or between shafts thill-horsec1325 limoneer1524 thiller1552 body horse1558 fill-horse1600 limber1632 filler1695 pole horse1725 shaft-horse1769 wheel-pair1794 wheeler1813 shafter1840 1558 in E. Roberts & K. Parker Southampton Probate Inventories, 1447–1575 (1992) I. 109 Traces for a bodie horse, xij d. 1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill (Arb.) x. 154 The body-horse in the Cart, that draweth more then the forehorse. 1759–60 Whole Proc. King's Comm. Peace (City of London & County of Middlesex) vi. ii. 231/2 He turn'd his horse round, and came and struck the fore horse again 2 or 3 times, and likewise the body horse. 1831 I. K. Brunel Treat. Draught in W. Youatt Horse 414 The leader, by tightening the traces, is continually relieving the strain from the body horse. 1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words I. 61 In some parts of the county the team is not used unless the team consists of four horses, in which case the shaft-horse is the thiller, the second the body-horse, the third the lash, and the fourth the leader or for-horse. 1988 J. Lavers Dict. Isle of Wight Dial. 21 Body hoss, the horse in the team nearest the ‘thiller hoss’ (the horse between the shafts). 2006 Record (Stockton, Calif.) (Nexis) 21 June In front of them, body horses and swing horses turn the wagon. < as lemmas |
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