Scottish. The action of driving sheep, cattle, or whales to a particular place; a roundup, a drive. Cf. call, v. 27a. Now chiefly Orkney and Shetland.
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释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > droving > rounding up (9) calling?a1425 Scottish. The action of driving sheep, cattle, or whales to a particular place; a roundup, a drive. Cf. call, v. 27a. Now chiefly Orkney and Shetland. muster1841 Australian and New Zealand. An act of collecting together cattle, sheep, etc., by riding round a scattered herd and driving it together; a… roundup1847 Originally and chiefly U.S. regional (western). A driving together of cattle or other livestock to be counted, branded, taken to market, etc. Cf… mustering1860 The exercise of assembling or being gathered together; an instance of this. rounding up1876 (in various senses of the verb); also attributive as rounding-up machine, rounding-up tool, etc. count-muster1891 a gathering, esp. of cattle, for purposes of counting them. Subcategories:— person or persons (3) |
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