| 单词 | sumpter boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmassumpter boy sumpter boy n. now rare a boy or young man employed to drive a sumpter or packhorse. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > conveyance by pack-animals > one who sumpterc1290 mayoral1598 sumpter boya1616 packer1694 packhorse man1725 cargador1811 packman1828 a1616 F. Tate tr. King Edward II's Househ. Ordinances (1876) §96. 56 That none of the kinges meignee..charetters or sompter boy..keepe his wife at the court. 1783 New Hist. Scotl. III. 96 The English seeing waggoners and sumpter boys on the heights with military standards..seized them. 1873 J. Brown Round Table Club 125 It was only an army of waggoners and sumpter boys, with military flags and music. 1977 B. F. Byerly & C. R. Byerly Rec. Wardrobe & Househ., 1285–6 I. p. xxxv. A small army of grooms, carters, sumpter boys and menials of the stable had to be supervised and provided with the essentials of their offices. < as lemmas |
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