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单词 twinter
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twinteradj.n.

Brit. /ˈtwɪntə/, U.S. /ˈtwɪntər/, Scottish English /ˈtwɪntər/
Forms: Middle English–1500s twynter, (Middle English twyntour, 1500s twintter, twyntter, tynter, twenter), 1500s– twinter; also 1500s qwintter, 1800s Scottish quinter.
Etymology: Reduced < Old English twi-wintre, -winter of two winters: see twi- comb. form and winter n.1, and compare thrinter adj. and n. So West Frisian twinter- two years old (of horses or cows; known to Kilian in tweenter-, twinterdier), and twinter (also twainter) a two-year-old horse or cow, North Frisian twenter an ox of this age.
Chiefly northern and Scottish.
A. adj.
Of two winters; two years old: said of cattle and sheep (also of colts).
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the world > animals > family unit > [adjective] > young > two years old
twinter1537
two-yearling1577
two-yearing1600
two-year-old1601
1537 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 103 To every oon..of my kynde servauntes..oon twynter calf.
1540 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 94 ij twintter bolokes..one twyntter heffer.
1582 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 1 A twinter kowlt.
1620 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) II. 245 A twinter steere.
1638 Will E. Burton in Reliquary VIII. 221 One twinter bay filly with a whyte foote.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 38 After a ewe has been shorn three times she is called a twinter ewe, that is, a two-winter ewe.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Twinter, ‘a twinter stot’, an ox of two winters old.
B. n.
a. A two-year-old cow, ox, horse, or sheep.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > of certain age
twinter1404
thrinter1535
runt1638
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > foal > of specific age
twinter1404
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by age > two years old
twinter1404
hoggerel1530
two-shear1788
four-tooth1793
bident1881
1404 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 399 Item 14 twynterys.
1408 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1903) II. 16 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 932) LIII. 323 Unum twyntour.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. ii. 105 Five twinteris britnit he,..and tydy quyis.
1536 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 419 4 Trynters, 7 Twynters, 9 Stirks.
1567 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 204 One yonge colte beinge a twinter.
1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 341 xxiij twenters, stotts and whies.
1674 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 4) Twinters, Cattle of two Winters old, so called in Bedford-shire.
c1720 A. Ramsay Ram & Buck 22 When sleet Made twinters and hog-wedders bleet.
1778 Ann. Reg. 1777 Antiquities 149/1 Twinter, a calf two winters or two years old: Derbyshire.
1808 T. H. Horne Compl. Grazier (ed. 3) 97 The name of the female neat cattle is for the first year, cow~calf, then a..twinter.
1868 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 4 ii. 428 I turned 20 yearly calves and ‘twinters’—as two-year-old animals are locally termed—into a 6-acre field.
a1898 J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1899) 339Twinters’ and ‘th[r]inters’, sic like names for sheep.
b. transferred. Applied to pasture for, or the right to pasture, a two-year-old sheep, in a common or jointly-held field.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > tenure and rights > [noun] > rights
pannage1392
commonc1405
stint1437
agistmenta1450
intercommon1449
commonty1466
foggage1471
communitya1475
gist1493
commoning?a1509
arrentationc1540
wether gang1561
browsage1570
pasturage1572
feed1575
intercommoner1581
frankfold1609
broouage1610
fellow commoner1612
horsegate1619
frankfoldage1628
shack1629
tatha1641
retropannage1679
levancy and couchancya1691
commonance1701
stinter1701
horse-lease1721
stray1736
goose-gate1739
commonage1792
twinter1846
couchance1886
levance1886
sheep-stray1891
stintholder1894
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > sheep pasture > types of
lamb's-lease1609
hog-fence1790
twinter1846
tussock land1881
1846 Award in High Court of Justice Chanc. Div., Coulston v. Harvey (1892) Four gaits, two twinters, in Bolton Highfield.
1892 High Court of Justice Chanc. Div. (1892) The Plaintiffs are entitled to 11 gaits 2 twinters and 2 claws or..22 a. 1 r. 35 p. And the Defendants to 2 gaits and 1 claw or..3 a. 2 r. 5 p.
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