| 单词 | carriage cattle |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarriage cattle C1. As a modifier (in sense 14), designating something, e.g. a cart or a pack animal, used to carry or pull loads, as in carriage bullock, carriage cattle, etc. See also carriage horse n. 1. ΚΠ 1391 in L. T. Smith Exped. Prussia & Holy Land Earl Derby (1894) 7 (MED) Et pro j cariage sadelle, x s. 1404–5 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 605 (MED) In 4 Jugis empt. pro le cariagewayn, 6 d. 1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Giumente, any cariage beastes. 1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 28 Lay your baggage vpon the carriage-beasts. 1714 J. Digby tr. Quintus Curtius Hist. Wars Alexander II. vii. iv. 20 When this Food fail'd 'em likewise, they were commanded to kill their Carriage Cattle. 1803 Duke of Wellington Let. 20 Jan. in Dispatches (1837) I. 399 Every carriage Bullock..should have a saddle. 1896 G. A. Henty On Irrawaddy xi. 188 A supply of elephants and carriage cattle which had arrived from Calcutta. 2014 Jrnl. Econ. & Social Hist. Orient 57 496 The dearth in carriage cattle meant rank-and-file Europeans, sepoys and camp followers had to carry heavy ordnance for the artillery train on their backs. < as lemmas |
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