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单词 dog-rapper
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dog-rapper
dog-rapper n. Obsolete (English regional) (historical in later use) an official employed to drive dogs out of a church or chapel; = dogwhipper n. (in extended use sometimes applied to other minor church officers); (also) the switch or stick used for dog-rapping.
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suffragan1437
sacristanc1440
segstar1531
dogwhipper1592
knoller1611
dog-flogger1806
dog-rapper1854
1854 Wilts. Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Mag. 1 90 The magistrate at Newbury told me..that when he was a boy they [sc. vergers] were called dog-rappers... At the time when Dog-rappers were required, the state of the canine race must have been very different.
1854 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 398 Dog-rappers..were weapons for driving dogs out of churches.
1923 E. Gepp Essex Dial. Dict. (ed. 2) 40 Dog-rapper: a church beadle or sexton.
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