单词 | park-keeper |
释义 | park-keepern. The caretaker of a park. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > large ornamental grounds > keeper of park-keeper1855 groundsman1886 1579 in F. G. Emmison Essex Wills (1995) (modernized text) X. 2 John Allen of Elmstead park keeper. 1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iv. ii Some falconers, some park-keepers, and some huntsmen. 1785 R. Barker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 354 The horns of that species which park-keepers..call throstle-nest horns..form an hollow..large enough to contain a thrush's nest. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 34 All that the Queen could do was to order the parkkeepers not to admit Sir John again within the gates. 1938 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Virginia) 14 July 4/1 Parkkeepers have reported..that the bottom of the wading pool..has been liberally sprinkled..with jagged fragments and splinters from broken bottles. 1999 D. Haslam Manchester, Eng. ii. 52 We had park-keepers in them days. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579 |
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