| 单词 | goadsman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoadsman goadsman n. (also goad's man) a person employed to drive a team of draught animals (typically oxen); a driver, a teamster; = gadsman n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > driver of a team of draught animals goadman1606 goad-groom1614 teamer1696 teamster1758 team man1763 goadsman1788 teamsman1792 voorloper1837 mule skinner1870 swamper1870 tracer1899 skinner1910 1788 R. Galloway Poems 63 The healthy goadsman, void of care, Of what the night might bring. 1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIV. 141 Some gentlemen have begun to use the two-horse plough, but hitherto rarely without a goad's man. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 133 Ye may be goadsman..and tak tent ye dinna o'er-drive the owsen. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. xii. 356 Bullock-chariots, and goadsmen in Roman Costume. 1943 ELH 10 291 Twelve oxen were sometimes required to pull this type of plough, while the assistance of a..goadsman to keep the oxen moving was a necessity. 1994 E. James & G. Jondorf Racine: Phèdre ii. 81 Subligny's allusion to the divine goadsman or drover is more plausible. < as lemmas |
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