单词 | mug lamb |
释义 | > as lemmasmug lamb In full mug sheep. A breed of sheep having the face completely covered with wool; a sheep of this breed. So mug ewe, mug lamb, etc.In some glossaries explained as a ‘pollard’ or ‘hornless’ sheep; this may have been the original sense: cf. mugged adj.1 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > specific breeds or members of mug1596 down1721 Shropshire1768 Norfolk sheep1778 Ryeland1786 Southdown1786 Persian1794 Leicester1798 Southdowner1799 Ryeland1802 loaghtan1812 Manx loaghtan1812 herdwick1837 Wallachian1837 Norfolk1851 Teeswater1861 bluefaced Leicester1864 Rough Fell1871 Border Leicester1873 Mexican1878 Cheviot1883 fat-tail1888 pampas1892 pampas sheep1895 turbary1908 karakul1913 East Friesian1949 Texel1949 Norfolk Horn1961 Colbred1962 1596 Fairfax Inventory in Archaeologia (1884) 48 152 Item weather mugges xxviij. Item mugge lambes vjxxix. 1623 R. Brathwait Shepheards Tales 26 For good mug-sheepe and cattell..None could come neare thee. 1776 I. Fletcher Diary 19 July (1994) 321 Cliped the three mug lambs. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VI. 25 The sheep are of the English mugg kind. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Introd. Ep. 18 A wig like the curled back of a mug-ewe. 1879 Zoologist 3 356 They are all Scotch ewes for breeding, and first-rate Leicester tups, called in the dale [sc. Nidderdale] ‘mugs’. a1903 W. Heckley in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 194/1 [N. Yorkshire] Mug tupe, a ram of the large breed, freq. put among Scotch yows. a1919 W. B. Kendall Forness Word Bk. (Cumbria County Archives, Barrow) (transcript of MS) Mugg, a sheep without horns; cross between Leicesters and Fell sheep. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 85/1 Mug, the old term for the large Teeswater breed of sheep. 1974 Recorded Interview (Brit. Libr. Sound Archive) (Survey Eng. Dialects: C908) Track 7 [Yorkshire] Them sheep is just sold as uncrossed sheep... A mug tup—that's a Wensleydale tup. < as lemmas |
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