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单词 broadhorn
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broadhornn.

Brit. /ˈbrɔːdhɔːn/, U.S. /ˈbrɔdˌ(h)ɔrn/, /ˈbrɑdˌ(h)ɔrn/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: broad adj.1, horn n.
Etymology: < broad adj.1 + horn n.
1.
a. A bovine animal of a breed or type characterized by long, spreading horns; esp. a Texas longhorn. Now historical.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > breeds of ox > [noun] > long-horn breeds
longhorn1770
Shropshire1803
coaster1890
Texas longhorn1908
1805 J. Lawrence Gen. Treat. Cattle 125 With respect to purchased stock, they prefer..the broad-horns; by which I suppose, they mean the half long-horns, or the produce of the Lancashire long, and Yorkshire short-horns.
1875 E. A. Curley Nebraska xvi. 220 Texas can only furnish a limited supply of ‘broad horns’ or native cattle, of which Otoe County fattens a large number annually.
1901 Indianapolis News 13 Mar. 2/2 The play of a stiff wind over a Texas plain and its effect upon the feeding broad-horns is portrayed with much vigour.
2000 M. Wright What they didn't teach you about Wild West iii. 66 They went under the name of broadhorn,..Texas cattle, Spanish cattle, twisthorn, and—the most popular name—longhorn.
b. The bighorn sheep, Ovis canadensis. rare. Obsolete.
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1847 Knickerbocker Aug. 141 He had wandered some distance up the [California] mountains in search of wild sheep or ‘broad-horns’.
2. U.S. A kind of flat boat (flat-boat n. 2) formerly used esp. on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Now historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > types of
sedge-boat1336
shout1395
scout1419
pink1471
punt-boatc1500
palander1524
pram1531
punt1556
bark1598
sword-pink1614
pont1631
schuit1666
pontoon1681
bateau1711
battoe1711
flight1769
scow1780
keel-boat1786
ferry flat1805
ark1809
panga1811
mackinaw boat1812
mudboat1824
pinkie1840
mackinaw1842
sharpie1860
sculling float1874
pass-boat1875
sled1884
scow sloop1885
sharp1891
johnboat1894
ballahoo1902
pram1929
goelette1948
1824 J. Hall in Port Folio Aug. 143 The flat bottom boat, is nothing more than a raft with sides and a roof... An immense oar is placed on each side near the bow, which has given these boats the nick name of ‘broad-horns’).
1833 Deb. Congr. 20 Feb. 1764 It was too late to force his broad-horn against the current back into the main channel.
1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds 27 He went off on a broadhorn. You don't know what a broadhorn is. No? Well, it's a flat-boat of the old rig.
1941 F. L. Dorsey Master of Mississippi 129 Keelboatmen and ‘broadhorn’ pushers eyed it with suspicion.
1999 W. L. Heat Moon River Horse v. 114 Flatboats (arks, barges, broadhorns, Kentuckys), keelboats, skiffs, and who knows how many hybrids, all of them sharing one significant element: they had no propulsion but gravity—that is, the current.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022).
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