| 单词 | at walk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat walk a. An enclosure in which poultry or other birds are allowed to run freely; a poultry run. Also (in at walk: cf. sense 17): a place to which poultry birds are sent to give them more space in which to move than is possible where they have been bred. Cf. run n.2 15b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry walk1538 barton1552 poultry yard1715 runway1871 fowl-run1886 scratching ground1901 scratching-shed1902 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Viuarium, a place, where wylde beastes, byrdes, or fyshes be kepte. It may be callyd as welle a ponde, as a parke, a counnyngar, a walke for byrdes. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xvi. 107 Likewise you must not let them [sc. geese] lay out of their walke or fold. 1880 A. Jessopp Arcady (1887) i. 10 He eats the eggs for breakfast and the chickens for dinner, goes in for fancy breeds [of fowl], and runs up an ornamental ‘walk’ for them. 1920 Times 12 Jan. 9/5 Farmers are always ready to receive game fowl ‘at walk’, as they hold that they ‘pay their own rent’ by the destruction of injurious insects. at walk 17. A farm or cottage to which a young hound is sent in order to become accustomed to a variety of surroundings. Frequently in at walk, to put to walk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > dog-training > training hounds entering1714 walk1735 entry1845 1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. Argt. Of the litter of whelps..of setting them out to their several walks. 1781 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting v. 60 The distemper makes dreadful havoc with whelps at their walks. 1840 D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports iv. v. §3. 474 Hounds are usually named at the time they are sent out to their walks. 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports ii. iv. §340 The Walks for the Young Hounds should be chosen in such situations as that they shall be accustomed to all sorts of company from children to horses. 1881 E. D. Brickwood Hound in Encycl. Brit. XII. 315/2 When about ten or twelve weeks old [foxhound] puppies are sent out to walk. 1921 Times 1 Nov. 11/4 There is reason to believe that there has been an increase in the number of puppies which have been sent out to walk. 1998 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 11 In the North-East there are: 111 puppies at walk. < as lemmas |
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