| 单词 | pug-mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspug-mark The footprint of an animal. Also more fully pug-mark. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animals hunted > trail > [noun] > foot-print pointingc1425 sealing1591 seal1686 pad1791 pug1851 pad mark1900 1851 Fraser's Mag. July 19/2 There were the broad, deep puggs of a tiger, up and down the nullah. 1865 Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 7/3 There are not many sensations worth getting up for so early..; but to see the first ‘pug’ of the tiger's track on the wet path is one of them. 1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 55 The goat has a square pug with blunt points to his toes. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 6 Mar. 14/3 Where the pugs are once more visible in the sheltered snow they are fresh and clear. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 860/1 I found a good many pug-marks and from them I concluded that the man-eater was a smallish beast. 1946 J. Corbett Man-eaters of Kumaon 8 Entering the ravine..I found the pug marks of a tiger in some fine earth..; these pug marks showed the animal to be a tigress, a little past her prime. 1992 N. Gordimer Spoils in Jump & Other Stories (1992) 174 Distinct pugs are found in the dust that surrounds the small swimming-pool. 2004 R. Stewart Places in Between (2006) 177 Among the pugmarks, footprints, and hoof blows on the pale track, melting snow had left patches of dark, glutinous mud. < as lemmas |
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