单词 | mothering pen |
释义 | > as lemmasmothering pen mothering pen n. Agriculture (originally New Zealand) a pen or paddock in which a ewe which has lost its lamb and a lamb which has lost its mother can be brought together. ΚΠ 1959 N.Z. Dairy Exporter 10 Aug. 115 All that was left over from the previous day was a ewe and lamb in the Bush Paddock mothering pens. 1969 A. B. Moore From Forest to Farm 69 Picking up the orphan [lamb] I locate the bereaved mother [sheep], and, collecting her dead lamb, work her quietly into a mothering pen in the corner of the block. < as lemmas |
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