单词 | horse-jockey |
释义 | horse-jockeyn. a. One hired to ride a horse in a race. (Now usually simply jockey.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > people involved in horse racing > [noun] > rider skipjack1608 horse racerc1618 rider1632 stager1638 jockeya1684 horse-jockey1782 jock1826 equison1846 hoop1941 pilot1976 1782 ‘P. Pindar’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians i. 3 My Cousin Pindar, in his Odes, Applauded horsejockeys and gods. 1812 Sporting Mag. 39 66 The parties were both horse-jockeys. 1858 in Hughes Tom Brown Pref. to ed. 6 Horse-jockeys have learnt to be wiser. b. U.S. One who traffics in horses. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in horses romonger1222 horse-mongera1400 cosser14.. corser?c1430 horse-corser1552 jockey1640 horse-coper1681 horse-jockey1744 horse-dealer1761 macquignon1798 horse-trader1811 coper1825 horse-cadger1886 1744 A. Hamilton Itinerarium (1907) 3 I met one Matthew Baker, a horse-jockey. 1784 in Connecticut Hist. Soc. Coll. (1930) XXIII. 204 Ship Building is carried on with Vigor in this State, & the Horse Jockey business flourishes. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. ix. 144 Few [horses] live and die on the plantations where they are bred; some are exported..; but the most are continually shifted from one owner to another, by means of a set of contemptible wretches called horse-jockies. 1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 50 The Kanaka horse jockey is fertile in imagination and elastic in conscience. Derivatives ˈhorse-ˌjockeying n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in horses horse tradec1760 horse-jockeying1783 horse-trading1826 horse-chanting1841 horse-coping1841 coping1864 1783 in S. E. Baldwin Simeon Baldwin (1919) 120 The conversation was upon News—horsejockeying—& other indifferent subjects. 1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 288 Brown bought a horse from a native at Waiohinu for twelve dollars, but happening to think of the horse-jockeying propensities of the race, he removed the saddle and found that..recent hard riding had polished most of the hide off his back. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1744 |
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