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单词 pig-hunting expedition
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pig-hunting expedition
The action or practice of hunting wild pigs; a wild pig hunt. Also attributive, as pig-hunting expedition, etc.In quot. 1631 figurative.
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pig hunting1631
boar-hunting1770
pig-hunt1793
pig-sticking1833
boar-hunt1843
pig-stick1906
1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre iii. ii. 34 in Wks. II These are Banbury-bloods, o' the sincere stud, come a pigge-hunting.
?1798 Catal. Prints John Barnard No. 281 Pig-hunting, by Winstanley.
1837 G. Hempleman Piraki Log (1911) 16 Nov. 60 The Natives and one Man started a Pig hunting the remainder employed grass cutting.
1880 J. C. Crawford Recoll. Trav. N.Z. & Austral. 163 Just below Puketapu we met a canoe laden with dogs going on a pig-hunting expedition.
a1948 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs (1951) x. 262 In 1878..one of the shepherds, took a pig-hunting contract.
1997 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 38 250 Colonial regulations handicapped pig hunting in several ways.
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