单词 | dartmoor |
释义 | Dartmoorn. Applied attributively (also elliptical) to special breeds of ponies and sheep produced in Dartmoor. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1831 |
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