| 单词 | pork eater |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspork eater pork eater n. (a) a person who eats pork; (b) Canadian a person engaged on the trade route by canoe between Montreal and Grand Portage, and characterized as eating pork as opposed to the preserved meats eaten by those who travelled the more difficult interior routes; (also) any canoeist, esp. one who is inexperienced (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > paddler of canoe canoeman1681 paddler1770 pork eater1793 kayaker1856 kayak man1864 canoeist1866 canoer1866 kayakist1946 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. v. 22 If we grow all to be pork eaters, we shall not shortly haue a rasher on the coles for mony. View more context for this quotation 1705 (title) A pill for pork eaters, or A Scots lancet for an English swelling. 1793 J. MacDonell Diary 5 July in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 94 Between two and three hundred yards to the East of the N.W. Fort beyond the Pork eaters camp is the spot Messrs David and Peter Grant have selected to build upon. 1859 P. Kane Wanderings of Artist 34 The men who usually work this brigade of [Hudson Bay Company] canoes are hired at Lachine, and are called by the uncouth names of mangeurs du lard, or pork-eaters. 1953 Beaver Dec. 50 The provisions for the Crew were Pork & Biscuits; from which circumstance the young recruits were called ‘Pork Eaters’ to distinguish them from the old Winterers, who feed chiefly on ‘Pemican’. 2004 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 22 Dec. 3 Most pork eaters would not be aware of the horrifying conditions in which the animals were kept. < as lemmas |
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