单词 | crush-yard |
释义 | > as lemmascrush-yard crush-yard n. Australian and New Zealand a yard leading to the crush (sense 4c); also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > enclosure > branding or dipping corral or shute crush-pen1856 race1862 branding-yard1881 chute1881 branding-chute1882 branding-corrall1885 crush-yard1888 squeeze chute1899 squeeze gate1925 shute1961 1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms III. xvi. 247 This was the crush~yard and no gateway. I was safe to be hanged in six weeks. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xvi. 127 More would have been done but for the number of previously shorn sheep being mixed up with the woolly, making it necessary to fill the crush-yard more often. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 377/2 For handling large herds a crush yard is recommended. < as lemmas |
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