| 单词 | grass guard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrass guard grass guard n. Military (historical after late 18th cent.) (chiefly in colonial North America) a soldier or body of soldiers assigned to watch over horses, cattle, or other livestock at grass. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [noun] > action or occupation of pasturing > person > grazing guard grass guard1744 grazing guard1893 1744 R. Molesworth Short Course Standing Rules Govt. & Conduct Army App. 157 The Grass-Guard are not to have their Cloaks along with them. 1751 Lady Luxborough Let. 27 May in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 265 My eyes have..forty-three troop-horses to observe scampering..which, with the tent of the grass-guards, really makes the scenery pretty. 1795 Rules & Regulations Cavalry 119 When the Regiment turns out the greatest part of the horses, the Farrier Major must be at the grass guard. 1915 Course of Study Baltimore County, Maryland, Public Schools 466/1 Serving in the ‘grass guard’ to watch the horses while feeding. 2010 D. Cubbison Brit. Defeat French in Pennsylvania, 1758 viii. 142 Suspecting that this was only a relatively small French raid upon his livestock, Burd initially ordered out the Maryland Battalion of two hundred men to support the grass guards. < as lemmas |
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