单词 | horse-keeper |
释义 | horse-keepern. One who has the care of horses: in various shades of meaning. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager horse-keeperc1440 horse marshal1508 horse-master?1523 jockey1640 guarda-caballo1808 pony-man1851 pony boy1858 horseman1882 tackman1885 barn-boss1902 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 247/2 Horskepare,..equarius. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vjv Carryers, carters, and horskepers. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 104 Of lackeyes and horsekeepers a greater number. 1673 R. Head Canting Acad. Epil. sig. K3 The Oates which his Horse-keepers had given his Horses. 1789 M. Madan in tr. Persius Satires (1795) 132 (note) A horse-keeper, a groom that looks after his master's horses. 1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 160 Ploughmen who want to ‘get on’ by being thought able horse-keepers. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Horse-keeper, the person in a [coal] pit who attends to the feeding and grooming of the horses and ponies. Derivatives ˈhorse-keeping n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] horsemanship1566 hipponomy1618 hipparchy1631 horse-keeping1777 peonage1844 horse-mastership1904 stablecraft1931 1777 A. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 262 By your accounts of board, horsekeeping, etc., I fancy you are not better off than we are here. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1440 |
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