单词 | rearer |
释义 | rearern. 1. A person who rears someone or something (in various senses); (now) esp. an animal breeder. Formerly also with †up. ΘΚΠ society > education > upbringing > [noun] > one who brings up nurshera1382 rearera1382 nurrya1387 nutrix?a1475 bringer up1529 nurturer1542 breedera1568 upbringerc1598 raiser-up1879 primary caretaker1914 motherer1974 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > action, act, or state of waking or being wakened > specific waking or rousing > one who arearera1382 rearera1382 waker1390 raisera1400 awakener1598 awaker1611 rouser1611 excitator1688 arouser1869 waker-upper1935 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > keeper of cattle beastman1311 breeder1531 cowman1593 rearer1611 bull-ward1614 cowgirl1753 ranchero1825 cattle-breeder1827 rancher1836 estanciero1845 ranchman1854 cattle king1874 beef-grower1880 cow-man1924 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Judith xiv. 9 Thei..weren..makende noise for ende to reren hym..that not of the rereres [v.r. arereris; a1425 L.V. reiseris; L. excitantibus] but of the noise makeris Olofernes shulde waken. ?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 132 (MED) In þis chirche ben..enchauntours, arioleris, charmours, & rerars of þe deuel. 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 61 No common guiftes are required in the builders and rearers vp of Churches. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Esleveur, a rearer, breeder. 1683 J. Lead Revelation of Revelations 63 Who are they then who may expect to be rearers up of this Tabernacle, which the Majesty of the Glory will fill? 1767 W. L. Lewis tr. Statius Thebaid II. x. 323 The Rearer of the Steed, When the kind Spring renews his gen'rous Breed, With Joy views these. 1789 in F. O. Blundell Old Catholic Lancs. (1938) II. iii. 69 Exd in Ale on the Rearers of Chapel. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 322 Will he remain a..Planter, and a rearer from the Seed? View more context for this quotation 1880 Daily News 23 Oct. 2/1 The demand of the English rearer of store cattle for Irish lean cattle. 1918 Geogr. Rev. 6 63 The German excels as a rearer of animals, and this compensates to some degree for his inferiority as a cultivator of the soil. 1959 Times 18 May 10/4 There are plenty of range rearers who annually take their pullets off range into straw yards without trouble. 1996 S. R. Kandall Substance & Shadow 9 [Women's] unique role as childbearers, child rearers, and child medicators. ΚΠ 1827 Sporting Mag. 21 131 We were favoured with..what is technically called ‘a rearer’, that is to say, the near side wheels went into a ditch deep enough to have turned us keel upwards. 3. A horse that has a tendency to rear (rear v.1 6a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [noun] > rearing or plunging > horse that rears rearer1829 1829 Sporting Mag. 24 89 In nine cases out of ten I have found that confirmed rearers are tender mouthed. 1866 Athletic Sports for Boys 130 Little can be done in harness with a determined rearer. 1936 L. B. Smith Dude Ranches & Ponies 172 In the case of the rearer, it is more or less expected and the rider can see it coming. 1984 C. Kightly Country Voices ii. 71 They wouldn't entertain him, 'cause they knew he was a bit of a rearer. 2005 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 18 Dec. 88 By comparison with the rearers and plungers, those that lash out with their hind legs,..Aqua D'Amore [sc. a racehorse] doesn't rate. 4. English regional (Staffordshire). Coal Mining. A steeply inclined seam of coal; an edge seam. Usually attributive.Cf. quot. 1686 at rearing adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > stratum or bed > of coal > type of coal seam foot coal1665 foot-rid1665 top coal1803 ten-yard coal1839 rider1840 ten-foot coal1855 top-hard1855 yard-coal1855 yard-seam1862 guide seam1867 main1867 bank1881 rearer1883 thick coal1883 thick seam1883 thin seam1883 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 200 Rearer, see Edge Coals. 1897 Trans. Federated Inst. Mining Engineers 14 392 Seams having a higher gradient than 45 degrees are called ‘rearers’. 1913 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers 45 378 Even these difficulties have been much intensified in the rearer workings of the Ten-Feet Seam. 1927 H. F. Bulman Working of Coal x. 129 The steep ‘rearer’ seams lying on the western side of the North Staffordshire coalfield are worked on a bord-and-pillar system. 1997 Dict. Mining, Mineral, & Related Terms (Amer. Geol. Inst.) (ed. 2) 61/1 Various names have been applied to this method [sc. bord-and-pillar method], such as..North Staffordshire method, rearer method of working inclined seams, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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