单词 | pricket's sister |
释义 | > as lemmaspricket's sister a. A male deer (esp. a fallow buck) in its second year, having straight unbranched antlers. †pricket's sister: a female fallow deer in its second year. Cf. brocket n., sorrel n.2 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > in its second year brocketa1425 pricketa1425 brockc1515 spittard1538 spitter1565 brocard1607 subulon1607 knub1617 knobber1677 knobbler1686 buck-fawn1786 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > types of deer > [noun] > genus Cervus > cervus dama (fallow deer) > female doec1000 pricket's sister1657 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 12 Capriolus, a priket. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 413 Pryket [?a1475 Winch. Prik; read Priket], beest, capriolus. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. e iv/a The secunde yere a preket. a1500 (a1450) tr. Secreta Secret. (Ashm. 396) (1977) 80 (MED) Man..is as..symple and meke as a lambe, swyft and light as a do or a pryket. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Dec. 27 I..ioyed oft to chace the trembling Pricket. 1657 M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family Commonwealth (1894) 409 Non but dows and faunes and prickets and prickets sisters..tuenty shillins a peece for all thees. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote III. x. xix. 136 The young pricket..had made off, and joined the herd. 1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 518/1 At the second year the..‘pricket’ puts forth a simple ‘dag’. 1941 Beaver June 38 Pricket, a two-year-old buck caribou. 1960 M. Burton Wild Animals Brit. Isles 125 During the first year the fallow fawn gives no sign of antlers, but in its second it produces a pair of short unbranched prongs which give the fawn its name of pricket. 2002 Western Daily Press (Nexis) 13 Mar. 9 You can estimate the age of a red deer stag by its antlers... The second year, when it's a pricket, it grows two straight ones. < as lemmas |
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