英语词汇“beaver medicine”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

6. North American colloquial. The secretion of a beaver's scent glands, used in bait for trapping beavers. More fully beaver medicine. Cf. castor n.¹ 2. Now chiefly historical.By some authorities associated with sense 5a (in which sense the collocation ‘beaver medicine’ is attested in the late 20th cent.); but cf. quots. 1580 at sense 1c, ?1614 at sense 1c.

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1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 15 A small twig is then stripped of its bark, and one end is dipped in the ‘medicine’, as the trappers term the peculiar bait which they employ.

a1857 D. Thompson Narr. Explor. W. Amer. 1784–1812 (1916) i. xx. 317 Traps for beaver..of which the bait is the castorum of the beaver, called the beaver medicine.

1861 Canad. Naturalist Feb. 7 The gin covered inside the jaws, with a well fitting ‘pallet’ of birch bark, is placed indifferently either under or upon the snow, and on the pallet a piece of hair skin, well rubbed with the ‘medicine’ is tied.

1884 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 20 The ‘medicine’ used as bait, sometimes denominated ‘barkstone’, is the product of a gland of the beaver.

1907 M. Hunter Canad. Wilds 204 Beaver medicine and castorum would not allure him.

1947 B. A. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 157 The trapper..called it ‘medicine’, ‘castoreum’, or the like and carried it in a plugged horn at his belt.

单词	beaver medicine
释义	> as lemmas beaver medicine 6. North American colloquial. The secretion of a beaver's scent glands, used in bait for trapping beavers. More fully beaver medicine. Cf. castor n.¹ 2. Now chiefly historical.By some authorities associated with sense 5a (in which sense the collocation ‘beaver medicine’ is attested in the late 20th cent.); but cf. quots. 1580 at sense 1c, ?1614 at sense 1c. ΚΠ 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 15 A small twig is then stripped of its bark, and one end is dipped in the ‘medicine’, as the trappers term the peculiar bait which they employ. a1857 D. Thompson Narr. Explor. W. Amer. 1784–1812 (1916) i. xx. 317 Traps for beaver..of which the bait is the castorum of the beaver, called the beaver medicine. 1861 Canad. Naturalist Feb. 7 The gin covered inside the jaws, with a well fitting ‘pallet’ of birch bark, is placed indifferently either under or upon the snow, and on the pallet a piece of hair skin, well rubbed with the ‘medicine’ is tied. 1884 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 20 The ‘medicine’ used as bait, sometimes denominated ‘barkstone’, is the product of a gland of the beaver. 1907 M. Hunter Canad. Wilds 204 Beaver medicine and castorum would not allure him. 1947 B. A. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 157 The trapper..called it ‘medicine’, ‘castoreum’, or the like and carried it in a plugged horn at his belt. extracted from medicinen.¹ < as lemmas
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