| 单词 | trek boer |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrek Boer trek Boer n. (a) a Boer who moved his family and grazing stock from place to place; (b) = Voortrekker n.; (also) a participant in a later migration of Afrikaners. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of Southern Africa > [noun] > Afrikaner Hollander1699 Afrikaner1820 Afrikander1822 Cape Dutch1826 trek Boer1835 Low Dutch1900 trek-farmer1912 Boer1956 boertjie1956 1835 A. Steedman Wanderings S. Afr. II. iii. iii. 53 The next day we met a Trek Boor, with his cattle. 1847 in C. Pettman Africanderisms (1913) 513 All the most intelligent of the Trek Boers whom I have seen, look forward with dread to the course the Government are pursuing. 1882 C. Du Val With Show through Southern Afr. I. 106 Abolition of slavery was the primary cause of the movement of these ‘trek Boers’. 1912 East London Disp. 14 Aug. 4 Long before the nomad trek Boers crossed the Drakensberg. 1929 D. Reitz Commando xxiv. 281 We moved north through country thinly occupied by Nomad Boers (Trek Boers), who spend their lives going from one well to another with their flocks. 1941 C. W. de Kiewiet Hist. S. Afr. 17 When the Trekboers entered it with their flocks and tented wagons, they left the current of European life. 1981 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 159/2 The Afrikaner remains, according to Lambley, the atavistic, insular, racially arrogant trekboer. < as lemmas |
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