| 释义 |
ˈhorse-meat
[See meat.]
1. Food or provender for horses.
1404Durham MS. Sacr. Roll, j sythe pro horsmet falcand. 1475Bk. Noblesse 30 Finding bothe horsmete and mannys⁓mete to youre soudeours riding be the contre. 1528Sir B. Tuke in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. I. 286, I sent a phisician..promysing hym a mark by day, horsmete, and mans mete. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 256 Oats, and all mixed Corns called Horse-meat, are Harvested somtimes with two reaping hooks. 1742Fielding J. Andrews ii. ii, The sum due for horsemeat was twelve shillings.
2. = horse-flesh 1.
1853S. N. Carvalho Jrnl. 1 Feb. in J. Bigelow Mem. J. C. Fremont (1856) xvii. 441 He sent a Mexican..with cooked horsemeat. 1868All Year Round 22 Feb. 252/2 Horse-meat is a common..article of food. 1870Food Jrnl. 1 Dec. 620 The almost impossibility of obtaining beef and mutton naturally forced the use of horsemeat upon the people. 1904Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 10/1 Every day the purveyors and the consumers of horsemeat increase in numbers. 1910Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 1/5 The price of horse meat was 3½d. a lb. 1972T. P. McMahon Issue of Bishop's Blood (1937) xi. 171 A very suave-type fellow then came to Hymie with a tale about..buying frozen horse meat to meet the chain's need for huge quantities of frozen beef. |