| 单词 | give and take plate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgive and take plate a. In give and take plate, a prize for a race in which the horses which exceed a standard height carry more, and those which fall short of it less, than the standard weight. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race wild-goose race1594 wild goose chase1597 bell-course1607 Palio1673 stake1696 paddock course1705 handicap1751 by-match1759 pony race1765 give and take plate1769 sweepstake1773 steeplechase1793 mile-heat1802 steeple race1809 welter1820 trotting-race1822 scurry1824 walkover1829 steeple hunt1831 set-to1840 sky race1840 flat race1848 trot1856 grind1857 feeler1858 nursery1860 waiting race1868 horse-trot1882 selling plate1888 flying milea1893 chase1894 flying handicap1894 prep1894 selling race1898 point-to-point1902 seller1922 shoo-in1928 daily double1930 bumper1946 selling chase1965 tiercé1981 1769 St. James's Chron. 12–15 Aug. 2/3 Will be run for on Huish Downs..A Free Plate of 50l. Give and Take, by any Horse, Mare, or Gelding. 1776 Mrs. J. Harris in Lett. 1st Earl Malmesbury (1870) I. 348 Two races again, one as usual for the Give-and-take plate. 1814 Sporting Mag. 44 260 Give-and-take plates were then all the vogue. 1823 ‘J. Bee’ Slang Give and take—plates, turf-weight according to inches; the standard being 9 stone for 14 hands, but carrying 14 oz. extra for every eighth of an inch above, and allowing the same for every eighth less: thus 12 hands would carry 5 stone, 15 hands 11 stone. < as lemmas |
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