单词 | bull stag |
释义 | > as lemmasbull stag a. A bull; more fully bull stag. Now dialect, Scottish and Australian. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] hartc825 doe-buck?a1500 olen1591 stag1680 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bull > [noun] > castrated or bullock > castrated late in life stag1680 α. β. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 44 He returned..muttering that he thought he heard the ‘young staig loose in the byre’.1821 W. Scott Pirate III. iii. 56 The air and bearing of a bull-dog, whilk I have seen loosed at a fair upon a mad staig.1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/1 Stag,..In Scot., Staig. Bull-staig is a castrated bull.1680 London Gaz. No. 1482/4 One red Bull Stag with the same Mark. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 149/1 Good ox beef, instead of which he had substituted bull beef and bull stag beef. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 284 A dairyman's six heavy bull stags..broke over a well secured fence into my field of wheat. 1884 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Old Melbourne Mem. xvii. 123 I just recollect that blue stag... Was he in the mob you saw? 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Stag,..2. A castrated bull. The term is applied to any animal emasculated after maturity. 1894 Harper's Mag. Feb. 354 They require work-steers to do their ploughing and Mr. Bell has brought up half a dozen old ‘stags’. < as lemmas |
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