| 单词 | to stick pigs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto stick pigs b. transitive. To hunt (wild boar) on horseback using a spear; to succeed in hitting (a wild boar) with a spear. Frequently in to stick pigs (cf. pig-sticking n. 2). Now historical.The sport of pig-sticking is chiefly associated with India in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, where it developed as a pastime for British colonial officers. ΚΠ 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiii. 568 He wrote off to Chutney..that he was going to show his friend..how to stick a pig in the Indian fashion. 1891 ‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin I. ii. ii. 107 He had regarded India as an awfully jolly place where you shot tigers, and stuck pigs, and played polo. 1914 F. W. C. Jones in A. E. Wardrop Mod. Pig-sticking x. 168 We called our sport hog-hunting at Hyderabad.., because we so seldom stuck the pig. 1988 J. M. MacKenzie Empire of Nature (1997) vii. 188 It was customary in the Nagpur hunt to stick sows as well as boars, but from 1893 a fine was imposed for sticking a sow or an unridable boar. 2006 M. Van Creveld Changing Face War iii. 97 Most officers continued to play polo or, if stationed in India, stick pigs as if nothing had changed since 1900. < as lemmas |
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