单词 | high blower |
释义 | high blowern. A horse which breathes loudly, esp. during physical exertion. Formerly also euphemistic: †a roarer (roarer n.1 2) (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > (horse given to) blowing high blower1817 high-blowing1831 1817 J. White Compend. Dict. Vet. Art 265 There are several degrees of this disease, which dealers distinguish by appropriate names; such as a wheezer, a whistler, a high blower, a trumpeter, &c. 1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) xii. 254 Eclipse was a ‘high-blower’. 1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock iii. 55 A roarer—or, politely speaking..‘a high blower’. 1909 9th Ann. Iowa Year Bk. Agric. 1908 414 An animal that emits this sound is called a ‘high-blower’. Some horses have naturally, very narrow nasal openings, and they emit sounds louder than usual in their breathing when exercised. 1977 Times 12 May 13/2 He bought the horse a year ago as a high-blower (a flapping of the false nostrils, which is not in fact a detriment). 2012 Racing Post (Nexis) 11 Apr. 6 I could hear Red Rum's hooves drumming on the fast ground, and he was a high blower so I could hear him puffing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1817 |
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