单词 | ramming time |
释义 | > as lemmasramming time Copulation of rams with ewes; mating by sheep. Frequently attributive, as ramming season, ramming time. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > mating ramminga1525 blissoming1589 tupping1654 a1525 (?1474) Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 398 (MED) Þat he sle no..Cowe þat is a bullyng nor grete with Calffe, nor no Ewye that is on Rammyng nor grete with lambe. 1561 Bible (Geneva) Genesis xxx. 41 And in euerie ramming tyme of the stronger shepe, Iaakôb laied the roddes before the eies of the shepe in the gutters that thei might conceiue before the roddes. 1578 W. Hunnis Hyue Full of Hunnye f. 75v But in the Ramming time of yeare when Sheepe most feeble bee He did forbeare his Rodds to lay. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 163 The spotted stickes being laide before Labans sheepe at the ramming time. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 628 By the behauiour of Sheepe at their rutting or ramming time the Sheapheardes obserue tempests. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts 33 For in ramming time, God premonished me in a dream, of this course of enriching myself. 1705 A. Symson Tripatriarchicon 215 It came to pass in ramming time. 1743 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Nov. xiii. 330 By this Time, the Ramming Season is over. 1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep vii. 96 If a Person is so imprudent as to geld Lambs in the Ramming Time, it is a Chance if they don't die. < as lemmas |
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