单词 | swan-hopping |
释义 | swan-hoppingn. = swan-upping n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping of swans > marking of swan upping1560 swan-hopping1598 swan-upping1810 swan-marking1900 1598 in W. M. Williams Ann. Founders' Co. (1867) 75 Mr. Glover presented a debte of iij s. iiij d. which was laid out for bakeing of Pyes when they went Swan Hopping. 1657 J. Howell Londinopolis 395 How stately is he attended when he goes to take a view of the River, or a Swan-hopping? 1746 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 145 Two city companies in their great barges, who had been a swan~hopping. 1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter III. xi. 285 [Like] my Lord Mayor's barge on the river Thames when his Lordship is graciously pleased to go swan-hopping. 1854 L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry 29 The Royal Swan Happing (or upping, as it was called by the Cockneys). 1884 Alice Carr in Harper's Mag. July 255/2 The City Companies..had been up the river ‘swan-hopping’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1598 |
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