英语词汇“buffalo runner”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

f. North American. In full buffalo runner. A person who hunts buffalo by chasing them on horseback. Cf. sense 3b, run v. 9a. Now historical.

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1832 New-Eng. Mag. Mar. 211 St. Maurice..is the fellest buffalo-runner in the country.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. xi. 173 The ‘runners’, then, as they are called, mounted on fleet horses, and armed with bows and arrows, moved slowly and cautiously toward the buffalo.

1862 Nor'Wester (Winnipeg) 11 Sept. 2/5 The ‘runners’—ie. a select band of the best equipped, best-mounted, most experienced and most daring horsemen.

1895 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 8 250 When the council had agreed upon a day for the ceremony, the runners were sent out to search for a herd of buffalo.

1910 T. Roosevelt Afr. Game Trails vi. 152 He..shot her [sc. a warthog sow] from the saddle as he galloped nearly alongside, holding his rifle as the old buffalo-runners used to hold theirs.

2007 S. De Capua Cheyenne i. 14 Hunters called ‘runners’ or ‘chasers’ herded buffalo toward a cliff, where other hunters waited behind rocks and trees.

b. North American. In full buffalo runner. A (typically fast) horse used for hunting buffalo. Cf. sense 1f, run v. 9a. Now historical.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting > for hunting particular type animal

stag-hunter1709

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1810 A. Henry Jrnl. 14 Aug. (1992) II. 463 I purchased a horse, a Runner, from him for 20 Pints of Liquor.

1839 Let. 7 Apr. in Museum of Foreign Lit. (1841) June 166 I had a good buffalo runner, which cost me upwards of seventy dollars.

1858 J. Palliser Jrnl. 31 July (1863) 90 Breakfast finished, our ‘runners’ saddled and mounted, the whole party moved slowly on... Having ascended the slightly elevated ridge we then beheld our game, four or five thousand buffalo.

1924 J. H. E. Secretan Canada's Great Highway vii. 92 I rode that Buffalo runner hard all that year and she died within a few hundred yards of where I bought her.

1955 D. McCowan Upland Trails 15 With the passing of the buffalo, the days of the runner were also numbered.

2007 J. M. Marshall Day World ended at Little Bighorn iv. 40 Horses with breakaway speed were chosen as ‘buffalo runners’.

单词	buffalo runner
释义	> as lemmas buffalo runner f. North American. In full buffalo runner. A person who hunts buffalo by chasing them on horseback. Cf. sense 3b, run v. 9a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > hunter of specific animal > [noun] > of buffalo buffalo-hunter1824 runner1832 1832 New-Eng. Mag. Mar. 211 St. Maurice..is the fellest buffalo-runner in the country. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. xi. 173 The ‘runners’, then, as they are called, mounted on fleet horses, and armed with bows and arrows, moved slowly and cautiously toward the buffalo. 1862 Nor'Wester (Winnipeg) 11 Sept. 2/5 The ‘runners’—ie. a select band of the best equipped, best-mounted, most experienced and most daring horsemen. 1895 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 8 250 When the council had agreed upon a day for the ceremony, the runners were sent out to search for a herd of buffalo. 1910 T. Roosevelt Afr. Game Trails vi. 152 He..shot her [sc. a warthog sow] from the saddle as he galloped nearly alongside, holding his rifle as the old buffalo-runners used to hold theirs. 2007 S. De Capua Cheyenne i. 14 Hunters called ‘runners’ or ‘chasers’ herded buffalo toward a cliff, where other hunters waited behind rocks and trees. extracted from runnern.¹ buffalo runner b. North American. In full buffalo runner. A (typically fast) horse used for hunting buffalo. Cf. sense 1f, run v. 9a. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting > for hunting particular type animal stag-hunter1709 runner1810 pigsticker1900 1810 A. Henry Jrnl. 14 Aug. (1992) II. 463 I purchased a horse, a Runner, from him for 20 Pints of Liquor. 1839 Let. 7 Apr. in Museum of Foreign Lit. (1841) June 166 I had a good buffalo runner, which cost me upwards of seventy dollars. 1858 J. Palliser Jrnl. 31 July (1863) 90 Breakfast finished, our ‘runners’ saddled and mounted, the whole party moved slowly on... Having ascended the slightly elevated ridge we then beheld our game, four or five thousand buffalo. 1924 J. H. E. Secretan Canada's Great Highway vii. 92 I rode that Buffalo runner hard all that year and she died within a few hundred yards of where I bought her. 1955 D. McCowan Upland Trails 15 With the passing of the buffalo, the days of the runner were also numbered. 2007 J. M. Marshall Day World ended at Little Bighorn iv. 40 Horses with breakaway speed were chosen as ‘buffalo runners’. extracted from runnern.¹ < as lemmas
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