| 单词 | poundman |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoundman poundman n. [earliest attested as a surname] (a) a man employed to impound stray animals, (now U.S.) spec. a man who works for a public pound, esp. a dogcatcher; (b) a man employed in weir or pound fishing (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using other methods poundmanc1307 Petera1343 petermanc1400 fish-potter1819 sniggler1840 snatcher1878 ice-fisherman1879 guddler1880 pot fisher1890 pot fisherman1890 c1307 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 109 (MED) Joh. Pundeman. 1332 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 109 (MED) Ric. Pondman. 1867 N.Y. Times 22 Aug. 3/5 The pound men collected five horses and sixteen goats, and took them to the pound protected by the Police. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 222 The poundmen..sometimes eat them and consider them better than scup. 1908 J. London Martin Eden xxxiv. 298 This morning the poundman got Maria's two cows and the baby calf, and—well, it happened that Maria didn't have any money, and so I had to recover her cows for her. 2005 Modesto (Calif.) Bee (Nexis) 20 May b1 Lebow..normally devoted his time to catching stray dogs as the city poundman. < as lemmas |
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