| 释义 |
oxer Fox-hunting slang.|ˈɒksə(r)|
[See -er1 1.]
An ox-fence.
1859Lawrence Sword & Gown vi. 67 A rattling fall over an ‘oxer’. 1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Mkt. Harb. 51 The fence..was an ‘oxer’, about seven feet high, and impervious to a bird.
Delete Fox-hunting slang and add: [1.] In Fox-hunting, an ox-fence; hence similarly in Horse-racing. slang. (Later examples.)
1907C. B. Fry in Daily Chron. 12 Nov. 4/4 When a man buys a horse..if he is after a hunter..he considers the differences in horses relatively to double-oxers, stone-walls, big banks, and broad ditches. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Jan. 63/2 Such technicalities of the chase as bullfinches and double oxers. 1963Bloodgood & Santini Horseman's Dict. 118 [Steeplechasing] Oxer, strong cattle fence, railing, hedge and sometimes ditch. On Continent a ditch between two wide hedges.
2. Show-jumping. Any of various stylized representations of an ox-fence, used as obstacles; spec. a double oxer (double a. 6). Also fig.
1929M. de la Roche Whiteoaks i. 6 Without mishap he jumped the wall, then the first oxer, but as he cleared the bars he kicked the top rail. 1969C. Carey Show-Jumping Summer i. 8 We cleared the pipe-opening brush fence nicely, and went on over the raised oxer, the double and the high wall. 1976C. Dexter Last seen Wearing 287 The car, the French, and the spots:..a triple-oxer over which he would normally have leaped with the blithest assurance, but at which, in this instance, he had so strangely refused. 1986New Yorker 18 Aug. 51/1 There was a big oxer, followed by a tight, trappy turn. |