killing groundn.

Brit.

/ˈkɪlɪŋ ɡraʊnd/, U.S.

/ˈkɪlɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: killing n., ground n.

Etymology: < killing n. + ground n.

1. An area in which animals, esp. seals, are hunted and killed. Frequently in plural.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun]

fieldOE

forest1297

seta1425

chasea1440

hunting-fieldc1680

hunting-ground1721

flying county1856

hunt1857

moor1860

the Shires1860

driving moor1873

beat1875

killing ground1877

flying country1883

killing field1915

1877 J. B. Holder Hist. Amer. Fauna in J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. III. p. lxxv/1 The more valuable young or middle-aged [seals] are..selected, and driven on to the killing ground.

1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 106 That's the first time a seal has ever come to the killing-grounds alone.

1925 Science 61 406 The tiny wooden pegs used a hundred years ago by the seal-hunters to stretch out the skins to dry, could still be found in place on the old killing grounds.

1991 A. Wood Hist. Siberia 6 Private entrepreneurs..seeking not so much scientific information as further killing grounds in the pursuit of the lucrative sea otter.

1995 Countryman Summer 145/1 Far from being a wilderness, these are the managed, indeed manicured, killing-grounds for the grouse.

2. Military. An area exposed to concentrated fire or bombardment, leading to high numbers of casualties among soldiers operating there. Also (in extended use): any place in which large-scale death or destruction occurs. Cf. killing zone n. (a) at killing n. Additions.

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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of

butchery?1552

slaughterhouse1578

shamble1593

Aceldama1607

corpse-factory1919

killing ground1946

killing field1980

1946 D. D. Eisenhower Rep. Allied Exped. Force 45 Allied guns ringed the ever-shrinking ‘killing-ground’ and..the ordinary German infantry gave themselves up in ever-increasing numbers.

1969 Listener 2 Jan. 4/1 The airport after the raid was unlike anything I've seen since the Second World War, and for the Lebanese it wasn't just a macabre killing ground for airliners.

1985 P. Ziegler Mountbatten ii. xxi. 271 The campaign in the Arakan had been a deception operation, designed to tie up the British reserves far from what was intended to be the real killing-ground.

1994 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 29 Jan. a1 Three decades of civil war had turned the region into a killing ground.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	killing ground
释义	killing groundn. Brit. /ˈkɪlɪŋ ɡraʊnd/, U.S. /ˈkɪlɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: killing n., ground n. Etymology: < killing n. + ground n. 1. An area in which animals, esp. seals, are hunted and killed. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting area > [noun] fieldOE forest1297 seta1425 chasea1440 hunting-fieldc1680 hunting-ground1721 flying county1856 hunt1857 moor1860 the Shires1860 driving moor1873 beat1875 killing ground1877 flying country1883 killing field1915 1877 J. B. Holder Hist. Amer. Fauna in J. Richardson et al. Museum Nat. Hist. III. p. lxxv/1 The more valuable young or middle-aged [seals] are..selected, and driven on to the killing ground. 1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 106 That's the first time a seal has ever come to the killing-grounds alone. 1925 Science 61 406 The tiny wooden pegs used a hundred years ago by the seal-hunters to stretch out the skins to dry, could still be found in place on the old killing grounds. 1991 A. Wood Hist. Siberia 6 Private entrepreneurs..seeking not so much scientific information as further killing grounds in the pursuit of the lucrative sea otter. 1995 Countryman Summer 145/1 Far from being a wilderness, these are the managed, indeed manicured, killing-grounds for the grouse. 2. Military. An area exposed to concentrated fire or bombardment, leading to high numbers of casualties among soldiers operating there. Also (in extended use): any place in which large-scale death or destruction occurs. Cf. killing zone n. (a) at killing n. Additions. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of butchery?1552 slaughterhouse1578 shamble1593 Aceldama1607 corpse-factory1919 killing ground1946 killing field1980 1946 D. D. Eisenhower Rep. Allied Exped. Force 45 Allied guns ringed the ever-shrinking ‘killing-ground’ and..the ordinary German infantry gave themselves up in ever-increasing numbers. 1969 Listener 2 Jan. 4/1 The airport after the raid was unlike anything I've seen since the Second World War, and for the Lebanese it wasn't just a macabre killing ground for airliners. 1985 P. Ziegler Mountbatten ii. xxi. 271 The campaign in the Arakan had been a deception operation, designed to tie up the British reserves far from what was intended to be the real killing-ground. 1994 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 29 Jan. a1 Three decades of civil war had turned the region into a killing ground. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1877
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