单词 | bear gear |
释义 | † bear gearn. Obsolete. A device, typically a twisted withe (withe n. 1a) passed through the collar of a horse's harness so as to form a loop, by means of which the ends of the swingletree of a plough, or the ends of the crossbar from which the pole of a wagon is suspended, are supported by a pair of horses pulling the plough or wagon; = bearing gear n. at bearing n.1 Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > trappings, housing, or caparison steed shrouda1300 coverturec1300 trap13.. horse-house1316 attiringa1375 trapping1398 trappera1400 saddlecloth1415 house1463 foot-cloth1480 summock1506 reparelling1513 base1548 furniture1553 coperture1555 housing-cloth1569 caparison1602 footmantlec1610 bear gear1613 horse-furniture1613 bearing gear1616 housing1698 pad-cloth1795 rumbler1849 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. Former Pt. v. sig. C3 Whereas I told you before that these clayes were heauy worke for your Cattell, it is necessary that I shew you how to ease them, and which way they may draw to their most aduantage, which onely is by drawing in beare-geares. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) v. vi. 533 When they [sc. horses] draw two and two together in the beare geares..then there is needfull the plow, cleuise..the harnesse, the collars, the round withs, or bearing geares. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020). < n.1613 |
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