单词 | all-aged |
释义 | all-agedadj. 1. Originally Horse Racing (later also Coursing and in greyhound racing). Of a race: open to competitors of all ages. Also of the animals eligible to take part in a race: of all ages. Cf. all-age adj. 1, all-ages adj. 1.Generally more common than all-age or all-ages in the same sense. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [adjective] > types of race fast-run1820 welter1820 all-aged1838 flat-racing1886 illegitimate1888 novice1962 1838 New Sporting Mag. Jan. 29 Most of the all-aged races were without the slightest interest beyond the moment. 1850 G. Tattersall Pict. Gallery Eng. Race Horses 137 Recruit's winning the Craven against a decent field of all-aged horses, brought John Day's lot strong into the market. 1876 Coursing Cal. 51 The Craven Cup, for all-aged bitches, contained some already known to fame. 1882 Daily News 8 Nov. 6/5 Coursing. All-Aged Stakes, of 6 guineas each. 1903 Munsey's Mag. June 452/2 He beat the best all-aged horses of the country in brilliant fashion. 1977 Times 4 Oct. 10/5 Lord Rochford, the 6-4 favourite in the Hawkhurst All-Aged Stakes. 1990 Field Feb. 45/1 The Champion Stakes is for eight all-aged greyhounds. 2. Forestry. Designating a forest made up of a mixture of trees of all ages. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [adjective] > containing trees of same or different age or species even-aged1889 pure1889 all-aged1905 uneven-aged1905 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 15 Many-aged, a forest through all parts of which many different classes of trees tend to distribute themselves. When all age classes are thus distributed, the forest is all-aged. 1957 Ecology 38 182/2 The reviewer has not seen and Prof. Lutz has not described an all-aged forest in which trees range from seedlings to ancient dying members. 1990 Forest Resources of Arizona Dec. 29 The Abert squirrel..requires an all-aged ponderosa pine forest to ensure an ample supply of pine seeds and twigs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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