单词 | chilver |
释义 | chilvern. A ewe-lamb: commonly chilver-lamb n. Also chilver-hog. (Found in Old English, and still common in southern dialects, though not evidenced in the intervening period.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > lamb > female ewe lamba1425 ewe-hog1531 sheder1579 chilver1815 c1000 Ælfric Leviticus v. 6 Bringe an cilfor lamb [L. offerat agnam]. a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 392 Enixa est, cilforlamb, oððe acennende wæs. 1811 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. (new ed.) 260 Sheep,..wether-hogs, chilver-hogs from thence [sc. Christmas] till shear-time. 1815 European Mag. 68 337 I'll sell you a lamb that is called a Chilver [note or ewe lamb]. 1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 502 An eloquent sally on the rare wool of the chilver-hogs then present. 1825 J. Britton Beauties Wiltshire (E.D.S.) Gloss. Chilver, an ewe-lamb. 1883 in Standard 21 Apr. 5/8 The chilver (or breeding lamb) might be protected from the butcher's knife for a year or two. 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 15 Chilver-lamb, a ewe-lamb. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1000 |
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