| 单词 | dog-killer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdog-killer dog-killer n. a person who kills dogs; spec. an official appointed to kill dogs suspected of having or carrying some disease. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer of animals > [noun] slaughterman1389 dog-killer1592 slaughterer1648 buffer1699 pork butcher1763 knacker1812 serpenticide1817 vulpicide1826 piggicide1837 canicide1852 ursicidea1861 birdicide1866 insecticide1866 horse-knacker1937 pigeoneer1944 piscicide1953 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. C 3v Out vppon thee for an arrant dog-killer, strike a man when he is dead. ?1608 Orders Ld. Mayor & Aldermen London That order be taken that no Hogges, Dogges or Cattes..be suffred to be kept within any parte of the Citie,..and that the Dogges be killed by the Dog-killers, appointed for that purpose. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre ii. i. 16 in Wks. II A worthy worshipfull man..who would take you, now the habit of a Porter; now of a Carman; now of the Dog-killer, in this moneth of August. 1777 'Squire Randal's Excursion round London x. 103 The dogs by natural instinct ran away from the city dog-killer. 1841 L. M. Child Let. 26 Aug. in Lett. from N.Y. (1843) ii. 11 The company of dog-killers themselves are a frightful sight, with their bloody clubs, and spattered garments. 1991 Toronto Star (Nexis) 4 Dec. a3 A million dogs have been killed in one southern China province,..most of them bludgeoned to death in a campaign against rabies... Squads of dog-killers had been hard at work in Guangdong province. < as lemmas |
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