英语词汇“hen farmer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which hen expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in hen farmer, henkeeper, hen-keeping, hen-killer, etc. [Recorded earlier in surnames, as Adam le Henmongere (1263, showing henmonger : see note at monger n.¹), Henr. Henbyter (1297, showing henbiter).]

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Adventurier An idle loitering rogue; a hedge-creeper, henne-killer, sheet-stealer.

1847 Prairie Farmer Feb. 64/2 We shall hereafter insert one or two others, exhibiting some features which are left out in this, so as to supply the farmer and the hen fancier with sufficient light on the subject.

1849 Prairie Farmer May 162/1 Some discussion as to this subject..has grown out of a statement made by us regarding the experience of Dr. Barstow and ourselves in hen keeping.

1900 Badminton Mag. May 617 A stout hill fox he most undoubtedly was..but none the less, on the sworn testimony of all the farmers who were present, the most notorious old hen-killer in the country side.

1997 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 29 Mar. 17 Now hen farmer Amanda Fielder is demanding compensation from the RAF.

2012 Poultry World Feb. 24/1 As a writer of several best-selling hen-keeping books, a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and chairperson of the nearly 10,000-strong Henkeepers' Association, I use every means at my disposal to support those who keep poultry for pleasure.

单词	hen farmer
释义	> as lemmas hen farmer c. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which hen expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in hen farmer, henkeeper, hen-keeping, hen-killer, etc. [Recorded earlier in surnames, as Adam le Henmongere (1263, showing henmonger : see note at monger n.¹), Henr. Henbyter (1297, showing henbiter).] ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Adventurier An idle loitering rogue; a hedge-creeper, henne-killer, sheet-stealer. 1847 Prairie Farmer Feb. 64/2 We shall hereafter insert one or two others, exhibiting some features which are left out in this, so as to supply the farmer and the hen fancier with sufficient light on the subject. 1849 Prairie Farmer May 162/1 Some discussion as to this subject..has grown out of a statement made by us regarding the experience of Dr. Barstow and ourselves in hen keeping. 1900 Badminton Mag. May 617 A stout hill fox he most undoubtedly was..but none the less, on the sworn testimony of all the farmers who were present, the most notorious old hen-killer in the country side. 1997 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 29 Mar. 17 Now hen farmer Amanda Fielder is demanding compensation from the RAF. 2012 Poultry World Feb. 24/1 As a writer of several best-selling hen-keeping books, a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and chairperson of the nearly 10,000-strong Henkeepers' Association, I use every means at my disposal to support those who keep poultry for pleasure. extracted from henn.¹ < as lemmas
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