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单词 strandlooper
释义

Strandloopern.

/ˈstrantlʊpə/
Forms: Also Strandloper. Also with lower-case initial. Rarely as two words or with hyphen.
Etymology: < Afrikaans strandloper, < Dutch strand strand n.1 + looper walker: compare land-loper n.
1. South African. Any of several sand-plovers of the genus Charadrius, found in coastal regions.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius leschenaultii
snite1694
strand-runner1706
Strandlooper1731
1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 157 The Dutch call this Bird Strand Loper, i.e. Shore-Courser.
1875–84 R. B. Sharpe Layard's Birds S. Afr. 662 Ægialitis tricollaris (Vieill.)... This pretty little Plover, the Strandlooper of the colonists, is common throughout the colony.
1972 Evening Post (Port Elizabeth) 9 Sept. 2 They [sc. ostriches] find the little sandplovers (strandlopertjies) on the farm a nuisance. These little birds dart at them frequently.]
2. South African.
a. A member of a people, related to the San and Koekhoe, living on the southern shores of South Africa from prehistoric times until the second millennium a.d.
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Strandlooper1838
1838 D. Moodie tr. J. van Riebeck's Jrnl. in Record i. 16 In the evening some of the Saldania Ottentoos came to the Fort... These two Saldaniers were much bolder and livelier men than the Strandlopers who daily live with us, but still having the same language and clothing.
1846 J. Sutherland Mem. Kaffirs S. Afr. II. 29 For a little tobacco the strandloopers will always fetch firewood for the cooks.
1900 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 30 47 I have not much to say about the remains of the ‘strand loopers’ or ‘shore walkers’, as they have been called, from their habit of life.
1913 Daily News 16 Dec. 9 The Strandlopers lived on the coast before the Dutch went into South Africa.
1919 H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. ii. 23 This Strandlooper either co-existed alongside the Bushman or preceded and was followed by this specialized desert negro.
1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods i. 11 There is reason to think that this race [sc. Boskop Man] was the ancestor of the modern South African Hottentot and Bushman, for the remains of an intermediate type—the vanished race of Strandloopers—has been discovered and all three types agree in certain cranial characteristics. In size of brain, however, there is a steady diminution from the 1,700 c.c. or more of Boskop through the Strandlooper skulls.
1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse 121 The ridge of river-debris after the flood, ran along the base of these strandlooper~dunes.
1975 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 4 Aug. 4 A skeleton believed to be that of a Strandloper Hottentot, who was buried in the traditional position with legs drawn up and hands placed across the knees, has been unearthed near Sedgefield, the coastal resort.
1981 Sci. Amer. Aug. 92/1 They appeared to fill a niche at the edge of western Europe similar to that of the aboriginal Tasmanians in the Pacific, the Patagonians in sub-polar South America and the Hottentot ‘strandloopers’ of South Africa.
b. A member of a people, perhaps to be identified with the above, found on the Namibian coast.
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1948 L. G. Green So Few are Free xvi. 216 Some authorities believe that the ‘Strandlopers’, extinct in South Africa, may survive on the Kaokoveld coast.
1956 Cape Times 27 July 3/5 Three Hottentots of the strandloper race, said to be the last of their kind, attended a gathering of Kaokaoveld Natives addressed by..Dr. Verwoerd..in the north-west of South West Africa.
3. Archaeology. Usually plural. Any prehistoric people who were nomadic about coastal areas or inland shores.
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the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] > types of nomads
nomadesa1544
horde1555
Strandlooper1935
1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1 12 The strandloopers who have left the kitchen-middens in Denmark.
1939 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 3) i. 8 Asturian is the term applied to the culture of strandloopers who succeeded the Azilians on the coasts of North Spain.
1956 Antiquity 30 48 A peripheral culture, which has lost its vitality, a ‘strand-loper’ type of existence.
1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies ii. 37 The investigation of sea-shore middens belonging to Strandlopers—‘Seashore Walkers’—who were a vanished Stone Age race of Sperrgebeit nomads.
1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles v. 103 In the north of Britain, and especially along the coasts of the North Channel, groups of people known as ‘Strandloopers’, who subsisted to a considerable extent on shellfish, are represented by the Larnian and Obanian industries.
4. A beachcomber or vagrant.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp
harlot?c1225
raikera1400
vacabond1404
vagrant1444
gangrela1450
briber?c1475
palliard1484
vagabondc1485
rogue1489
wavenger1493
hermit1495
gaberlunzie1508
knight of the field1508
loiterer1530
straggler1530
runagate1534
ruffler1535
hedge-creeper1548
Abraham man1567
cursitor1567
runner1567
walker1567
tinker1575
traveller1598
Tartar1602
stravagant1606
wagand1614
Circumcellion1623
meechera1625
hedge-bird1631
gaberlunzie man1649
tramp1664
stroller1681
jockey1685
bird of passage1717
randy1724
tramper1760
stalko1804
vagabondager1813
rintherout1814
piker1838
pikey1838
beachcomber1840
roadster1851
vagabondizer1860
roustabout1862
bum1864
migratory1866
potter1867
sundowner1868
vag1868
walkabout1872
transient1877
Murrumbidgee whaler1878
rouster1882
run-the-hedge1882
whaler1883
shaughraun1884
heather-cat1886
hobo1889
tussocker1889
gay cat1893
overlander1898
stake-man1899
stiff1899
bindle-stiff1900
dingbat1902
stew-bum1902
tired Tim (also Timothy)1906
skipper1925
Strandlooper1927
knight of the road1928
hobohemian1936
plain turkey1955
scrub turkey1955
derro1963
jakey1988
crusty1990
1927 J. Joyce Contin. Work in Progress in transition No. 5. 19 What child of a strandlooper but keepy little Kevin..would ever have trouved up on a strate that was called strete a motive for future saintity by euchring the finding of the Ardagh chalice by another heily innocent and beachwalker.
1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 87/2 The man turned out to be a strandlooper—a coloured beachcomber, one who shared the food of the gulls.

Derivatives

ˈstrandlooping adj. Archaeology nomadic about coastal areas or lake shores.
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the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [adjective] > being nomadic
strandlooping1959
1959 New Scientist 12 Mar. 562/1 The Kennet of about 7,000 years ago was a series of connected lakes surrounded by forest, a site which must have been ideal for a strand~looping people.
1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles v. 105 For part of the year, the inhabitants probably forsook their industrial and strandlooping activities and moved inland to obtain their living by other means.
ˈstrandlooping n.
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the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] > action of being
strandlooping1976
1976 J. Hawkes Atlas of Early Man 44/2 Strand looping as well as fresh water and sea fishing intensified.
1978 R. Bradley Prehist. Settlement of Britain 94/1 Early fishing, fowling and strandlooping are all compatible with one another.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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