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单词 penner-up
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penner-up
A person who pens cattle. Also (chiefly Australian and New Zealand): a person who pens sheep ready for the shearers in a shearing shed (frequently as penner-up).
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1661 in B. D. Hicks Rec. N. & S. Hempstead, Long Island (1896) I. 100 The drifer shall hafe 2 penc A peece and the penner a penie a peece.
1873 C. J. G. Rampini Lett. from Jamaica 89 The inhabitants of the rural districts are coffee-planters among the hills, penners (cattle-farmers) in the interior parishes, and planters round the seaboard.
1887 K. Mackay Stirrup Jingles 46 It was during last shearing that the boss gave a penner the go.
1894 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Feb. 20/4 Stir yourselves, you penners-up, and shove the sheep along.
1938 Z. N. Hurston Tell my Horse iii. 39 Some say that the Whooping Boy is the great ghost of a ‘penner’ (a Cow-herd).
1955 People (Austral.) 30 Nov. 20/1 The penner-up bustles more sheep up the race.
1972 E. Hargreaves Fair Green Weed ii. 24 I had to go down to the cow-pen... One of the penners has had an accident... His mule shied.
1993 Horse & Rider May 25/2 Part of the TV crew is already present, rigging gear as avid penners get their horses ready.
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