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单词 horse-keeper
释义 ˈhorse-keeper
One who has the care of horses: in various shades of meaning.
c1440Promp. Parv. 247/2 Horskepare,..equarius.c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 14 Carryers, carters, and hors-kepers.1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. ii. lxxxvii. (1591) 104 Of lackeyes and horsekeepers a greater number.1673R. Head Canting Acad. K iij, The Oates which his Horse⁓keepers had given his Horses.1789Madan Persius (1795) 132 note, A horse-keeper, a groom that looks after his master's horses.1891S. C. Scrivener Our Fields & Cities 160 Ploughmen who want to ‘get on’ by being thought able horse-keepers.1893Northumbld. Gloss., Horse-keeper, the person in a [coal] pit who attends to the feeding and grooming of the horses and ponies.
So ˈhorse-keeping.
1777A. Adams in J. Adams' Fam. Lett. (1876) 262 By your accounts of board, horsekeeping, etc., I fancy you are not better off than we are here.
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