单词 | livestock |
释义 | livestockn. 1. Domestic animals kept on a farm for use or profit; esp. cattle, sheep, and pigs. Cf. stock n.1 54a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > collectively bestialityc1550 livestocka1687 living stock1690 the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock feec900 auchtOE orfOE avers1292 storea1300 bestialc1350 cattlea1400 ware1422 quickc1450 goods1472 stock?1523 chattel1627 live goods1635 team1655 creature1662 livestocka1687 living stock1690 farming stock1749 farm animal1805 fat-stock1881 1660 in H. M. Burt First Cent. Hist. Springfield (1898) I. 282 Such rates shall be raysed on houses land & liveinge Stock accordinge to their worth... Liveing Stock to be prized by men chosen by the Select men.] a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 116 The Cattel and Live-Stock, Three Millions. 1721 J. Wise Word of Comfort 31 The British Fleet was some Means of Raising the Price of our live Stock. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal iii. iii. 39 None but live stock, and they are only a few pointers and ponies. 1799 J. B. Bordley Ess. & Notes Husbandry xvi. 211 It is a rule applicable to all sorts of livestock, to breed from straight backed, round bodied, clean, small boned, healthy creatures. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 264 Trying the great market of Covent-garden for the sale of his live-stock. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 105 Our live stock, consisting of four bullocks, a dozen sheep, a dozen or more pigs. 1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. ii. v. 175 Farmers may..insure their live-stock. 1925 Scribner's Mag. July 1/1 Genetics has made possible better strains of livestock. 1956 D. E. Marshall Eng. People 18th Cent. vi. 205 With better agriculture and more fodder crops came a greater concentration on the breeding of livestock. 2006 Daily Tel. 27 Feb. 9/1 Along with the spread of the tusked pigs come increasing fears for the safety of humans, livestock and crops. 2. a. In extended use and figurative, applied to human beings, esp. slaves. Cf. stock n.1 54b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave theowc893 thrallc950 young manOE slavec1290 boyc1300 servanta1325 bondc1330 bondmana1340 manciplea1387 man's-bond?a1400 thrillc1480 thrillmanc1480 serf1483 bondservant1535 bondslave1561 bondling1587 slave-boy1607 slave-labourer1607 chattel1649 bondsman1713 livestock1755 esne1819 thirl-man1871 task-labourer1897 1755 J. Taylor Elements Civil Law 423 This Case comprehends two Difficulties. 1. How and in what manner the Calamity of the Parent can affect the Liberty of the Offspring? 2. Why the Consideration of the Mother only should determine the Fate of her Child? For here, as in all Live-Stock, the Maxim prevails, viz. Partus sequitur Ventrem. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals ii. i You talked of independence and a fortune, but not a word of a wife. Sir A...Odds life, sir! if you have the estate, you must take it with the live stock on it, as it stands. 1811 S. Beazley Boarding-house i. 16 You'll find that I am live stock, and neither to be led nor driven in any road contrary to my own inclination. 1894 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 305 Our suffering the human live-stock of the country to live such a wretched scanty existence as they do. 1935 R. Jeffers Birth of Age iv. in Solstice & Other Poems 28 Lupus Oh, little, my lord. The Goths have stripped us yearly, and the Alans Before them: we can only give all that we have. Attila All, hm? That's to say, all. Including your virgins, Young wives, all other livestock. 2006 Sight & Sound Sept. 50/4 C.S.A.'s version of events—with slavery so endemic black ‘livestock’ can be bought and sold on a home-shopping channel—is chilling precisely because its ‘what-if’ scenario is so convincingly realised. b. humorous. Fleas, lice, bedbugs, or other parasites that live on humans. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Siphonaptera or fleas > [noun] livestock1774 Aphaniptera1835 1774 Let. 25 Oct. in Jrnl. Lady of Quality (1923) 31 I am besides not a little afraid, they [sc. the emigrants] may bestow upon me some of their live-stock, for I make no doubt, they have brought thousands alongst with them. 1843 F. Sale Jrnl. Disasters Affghanistan 405 We suffered from uncleanliness than anything else... Fortunate were those who did not possess much live stock. 1939 W. Fortescue There's Rosemary, there's Rue xlii. 247 He told us that we should be devoured by live-stock in the Portuguese inns. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1810 R. Parkinson Treat. Breeding & Managem. Live Stock II. vi. 265 The live-stock salesman, the carcase-salesman, the cutting butcher, and the porkman, all concur in requiring as much lean to the fat as can be procured. ?1823 Pigot's London & Provinc. Commerc. Directory for 1823–4 166/1 Live Stock Feeders & Dealers & Hay Pressers. 1834 (title) Farmer, gardener, & live-stock breeder. 1856 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 7 The Council have..agreed to the Live-Stock Prize-Sheet. 1894 Daily News 4 July 5/7 The live-stock trade. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 429/1 In no other State are farmers so largely engaged in the live stock industry. 1963 Times 22 Apr. 2/6 Blue tongue, though it exists no nearer to the United Kingdom than Spain and Portugal, is so feared in Australia that it has led to a ban on all livestock imports from Britain. 2007 BBC Good Food: Vegetarian Summer 5/1 Did you know that almost one-fifth of climate-changing greenhouse gases come from livestock production? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1687 |
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