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单词 dartmoor
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Dartmoorn.

Brit. /ˈdɑːtmʊə/, /ˈdɑːtmɔː/, U.S. /ˈdɑrtˌmɔr/
Etymology: < the name of Dartmoor, a district in Devonshire.
Applied attributively (also elliptical) to special breeds of ponies and sheep produced in Dartmoor.
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1831 W. Youatt Horse iv. 59 The Dartmoor pony is larger than the Exmoor, and, if possible, uglier.
1837 W. Youatt Sheep vii. 252 The South Downs never succeeded well on the heath-clad hills of the Dartmoor sheep.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 189/2 Native ponies include those variously known as English, New Forest, Exmoor, Dartmoor.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 194/2 The Dartmoor is a hornless, longwool, white-fleeced sheep.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 24 Sept. 8/1 An intelligent Dartmoor, that would follow its master like a dog.
1937 K. Hull & P. Whitlock Far-distant Oxus i. 24 In the last stall a tiny shaggy Dartmoor butted her with his head.
1955 Times 6 July 7/3 Miss Calmady-Hamlyn, of Buckfast, had both male and female champions in the Dartmoor pony classes for the second year running.
1970 Observer 26 Apr. (Colour Suppl.) 36/2 Dartmoors look rather like shaggy dogs.

Compounds

Dartmoor-clip v. [ < Dartmoor, name of the convict prison near Princetown] to cut (a person's) hair very short as for a convict.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > beautify (the hair) [verb (transitive)] > cut > a person
dod?c1225
polla1325
topc1330
roundc1450
barb1587
unbeard1598
deplume1775
crop1858
Dartmoor-clip1932
1932 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals 197 He was run round to the barber an' Dartmoor-clipped for wearin' oily and indecent appendages.
Dartmoor crop n. hair so cut.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > cut or cropped
roundinga1582
stumps1584
stubs1607
trim1608
tonsure1650
committee cut1691
rasure1737
crop1795
county crop1839
flat-top1859
prison cropc1863
clip1889
Dartmoor crop1930
razor cut1940
prison haircut1948
scissor cut1948
cut1951
pudding basin1951
short back and sides1965
1930 E. Raymond Jesting Army i. i. 11 He was the only officer on the ship with his hair shaved down to his skull in what was known as the ‘Dartmoor Crop’.
Dartmoor granite n. (see quot.).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks > granite > varieties of
moorstone1461
silver stone1758
granitell1794
granitoid1794
rapakivi1794
ophthalmite1811
protogine1823
pegmatite1824
potash-granite1845
beresite1849
granitite1875
greisen1878
trowlesworthite1884
microgranite1888
charnockite1893
alaskite1900
Dartmoor granite1904
plagiogranite1959
1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 74/2 Dartmoor Granite, a greyish granite used in large work—e.g. London Bridge.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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