单词 | warrener |
释义 | warrenern. 1. (a) An officer employed to watch over the game in a park or preserve. Obsolete exc. Historical. (b) A servant who has the charge of a rabbit-warren.In the earlier quots. the two applications of the word cannot be distinguished with certainty. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > gamekeeper warrener1297 ranger1327 walker1482 underkeeper1502 browser1538 tineman1577 waterkeeper1590 gamekeeper1645 rider1647 preserver1749 garde champêtre1814 field ranger1835 warden1835 velveteens1857 keeper1863 game warden1876 pisteur1936 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > gamekeeper > keeper of rabbit-warren warrener1297 α. attributive.1591 R. Greene Notable Discouery of Coosenage f. 6v A Conny-catcher..what is hee a warriner fellow?β. 1362 [see α. ]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 517/1 Warnere, warinarius.1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 378/2 The Offices of Bailliff of the Manour and Lordshipp foren of Myche Marlowe,..and Warner, Wodward, [etc.].a1500 Tale K. Edw. & Sheph. in Hartshorne Anc. Metr. T. (1829) 45 The warner is hardy and fell.1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 10 §7 The Office of Warner or Warnershipp of oure Waren of Methwolde.1297 in W. P. W. Phillimore Placita Coram Rege (1898) 165 Thomam le Warener de Fakenham. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 159 Sesse þe souters wyf sat on þe Benche, Watte þe warinar [1377 warner, 1393 warynere] and his wyf boþe. 1467–8 Rolls of Parl. V. 609/2 Th' office of Warenner, or kepyng of the Warenne. 1473 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 188 Tha sal gife twa akrys of land fre til our warander of our kunynȝare. c1503 tr. Charter of London in R. Arnold Chron. f. vi/2 Wythin whiche wareyn nether waryner ne forester nor Iustice of our forest of her landis and wodes ne huntynge ne of repynge of her cornes entermet hem any thinge. 1551–2 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1913) X. 66 Item..to ane warrander send to Arrane to mak clapparttis for cunnynges, xl s̃. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 30v Get warriner bound, to vermine thy ground. 1584 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 17 Item given to the warrander for killinge of twoe foxes, xijd. 1614 G. Markham 2nd Bk. Eng. Husbandman ii. iv. 70 We see Warriners and Poulters sell Rabbets, a fat and a leane euer coupled together. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iv. 25 He hath fought with a Warrener . View more context for this quotation 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. iii. 17 May a Forrester, Warrener, or Keeper of a Parke, lawfully beate and kill another in defence of his..game? 1680 London Gaz. No. 1560/4 William Hooker, Warriner and Servant to George Vernon of Sudbury. 1770 G. White Let. 12 Apr. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 128 Warreners observe..that their rabbits are never in such good case as in a gentle frost. 1800 Hull Advertiser 6 Dec. 1/2 The warren contains an ample breeding stock of rabbits... The warrener upon the premises will shew the same. 1829 T. Brown Biogr. Sketches Dogs 529 Warreners..make use of nux vomica as a poison, which is not unfrequently concealed in a piece of raw meat, to entice foumarts and weasels to eat it. 1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. iii. 1714 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIV. 1 [Among officers of Scarborough corporation] Warrener and Gamekeeper. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) My father was warrender at Thorganby when I was born. 2. One who owns or rents a warren. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > gamekeeper > one who owns or rents a warren warrener1832 1832 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. (ed. 2) 276 Warreners are sometimes liable to great losses from an epidemical disorder among rabbits. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports i. i. vii. §10 The sport of shooting rabbits is never carried on in the warrens, because the warrener does not wish his property wasted, and prefers trapping them. 1880 Daily Tel. 27 Sept. Numerous parcels of ground let out formerly to warreners have been ploughed up. 1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 114 Poor nomads..warreners of the waste. 3. A warren rabbit. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren clapperc1400 cunnigar1424 warrena1425 coneygarth1429 coney-close?1472 coney hole?c1475 berry1486 coney holda1500 coney-clapper1530 coney yard1532 coneyry1570 coney burrow1575 coney gratec1580 coney-gat1591 coney green1599 coney warren1616 coney ground1617 rabbit hole1667 stop1669 rabbit burrow1723 stock1736 rabbit warren1766 stab1838 warrener1864 1864 Peter Parley's Ann. 325 The warrener burrows underground, and has the most valuable fur. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1297 |
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