| 单词 | quarter-racing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquarter-racing quarter-racing n. U.S. the holding of quarter-races; (now also) the racing of quarter horses. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing steeple-hunting1772 quarter-racing1779 roading1787 pony racing1809 steeplechasing1816 steeple running1818 steeple racing1840 horse-trotting1857 plating1865 trotting1883 chasing1886 flat-racing1886 harness racing1901 flapping1911 flapper1928 point-to-pointing1952 pointing1976 1779 T. Anburey Let. 12 May in Trav. Interior Parts Amer. (1789) II. lxvi. 393 A diversion termed..quarter-racing. 1784 J. F. D. Smyth Tour U.S.A. I. ii. 14 In the southern part of the colony, and in North Carolina, they are much attached to quarter racing, which is always a match between two horses, to run one quarter of a mile streight [sic] out. 1889 Harper's Mag. Sept. 554/1 Foot-racing for the men and quarter-racing for the horses. 1907 Washington Post 7 Apr. iv. 1/2 The great game in those days was quarter racing. Plenty of Georgians owned really good race horses. 2004 Lexington (Kentucky) Herald Leader (Nexis) 3 July c10 Short distances are a major appeal of quarter horse racing... You can get caught at the wire in quarter racing, too. < as lemmas |
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