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单词 red river
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Red Rivern.

Brit. /ˌrɛd ˈrɪvə/, U.S. /ˌrɛd ˈrɪvər/, Canadian English /ˌred ˈrɪvər/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: English Red River.
Etymology: < Red River, the name of a river flowing from North Dakota, United States, to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Canadian.
1. Red River cart n. now historical a sturdy two-wheeled wooden cart pulled by oxen or horses, used for transportation on the Canadian prairies.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > cart (usually two-wheeled) > other types
streetcar1671
hutch1742
box cart1794
Scotch cart1807
Red River cart1857
wheel car1931
1857 J. Palliser Jrnl. 14 July (1863) 38 The Red River cart is one admirably suited to the exigencies of the country.
1875 J. Carnegie Sask. & Rocky Mts. ii. 13 Red River cart, a stout two-wheeled vehicle of the toughest quality though entirely made of wood, wheels, body, shafts, and all, being fitted together without a single particle of iron.
1920 Z. I. Trinka Out where West Begins 30 A line of Red River carts running to St. Paul was established.
1975 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 21 Nov. 25/1 I've been here [sc. Calgary] for three days and I haven't seen one buffalo, or a Red River cart or a redcoated Mountie or a saloon shoot-out.
2004 Canad. Geographic Nov. 46/3 The ‘central object’ wasn't the Metis' historic vehicle, the Red River cart, but, rather the ice fisherman's trusty bombardier.
2. Red River jig n. a Metis stepdance originating in the Red River colony, combining French-Canadian dance rhythms and traditional dance steps with improvisational elements.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > lively dances > [noun] > jig
jigc1560
jigging1641
Red River jig1871
1871 A. Begg Dot it Down 279 Now there is a dance in the North West, peculiar to the country, called the Red River jig.
1872 Canad. Monthly Oct. 305/1 The principal dance, in fact the only one, is called a Red River jig, which somewhat resembles a horn-pipe, male and female participating in it.
1930 L. Munday Mounty's Wife iii. 44 The jigging by the men, known as the Red River jig, is really done very cleverly and is so swift.
1965 G. Shepherd West of Yesterday x. 74 Two compatriots came out on the floor and danced a Red River jig.
2003 Native Peoples Nov.–Dec. 66 The dance that lured everyone to the floor was the jig Ahtsii Ch'aadzaa, a variation of the Red River jig.
3. Red River fever n. Medicine (now historical) any of several infectious diseases causing fever and rash; esp. typhoid fever.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > typhus or typhoid
putrid fever1597
pestilential fever1617
tabardillo1624
synochus1625
Hungaric fever1661
typhus1664
military fever1736
jail distemper1745
hospital fever1750
jail-fever1754
ship-fever1758
typhus fever1780
typhoid fever1789
gastric fever1802
dothinenteritis1826
enteric fever1833
typhoid1837
pythogenic fever1858
thanatotyphus1860
typh fever1861
enteric1872
famine-fever1876
Red River fever1878
laryngo-typhus1888
laryngo-typhoid1896
typh fever1900
paratyphoid1904
1878 Manitoba Daily Free Press 16 Jan. In the township of Burford half the young men have got the Red-River fever.
1899 R. C. Cabot Serum Diagnosis of Dis. ix. 112 It has been supposed that Montana is wholly free from typhoid—cases passing under the names of ‘malaria’, ‘Red River fever’, ‘slow fever’, or ‘mountain fever’.
1945 K. M. Haig Brave Harvest 40 Aunt Alice's heart sank. The Red River fever!
1966 M. Kavanaugh Assiniboine Basin xxxv. 223 Fisher spent six weeks in the hospital suffering from typhoid—sometimes called Red River fever.
2000 Canad. Dimension July–Aug. 48 In Winnipeg, where I live, typhoid was known as Red River Fever in the nineteenth century.
4. Red River frame n. now historical a style of vernacular wooden architecture characteristic of the Red River area of Canada, featuring post-on-sill construction; chiefly used attributively to designate such a style.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific construction > [adjective]
wandedc1593
brick-built1596
rock-built1596
mud-walled1607
sedgy1624
sodden1639
nogged1688
frame1760
logged1784
stucco1786
weatherboarded1794
piled1795
thick-walled1820
clapboarded1835
board-built1837
pebble-dashed1839
puncheoned1843
timber-framed1843
betimbered1847
pile-built1851
massy1855
bamboo-walled1858
portable1860
half-timber1874
stone-faced1874
Red River frame1879
ashlared1881
granolithic1881
brick-end1883
converted1888
steel frame1898
board-and-bat1902
traviated1902
steel-framed1906
prefabricated1921
prefab1937
multiwall1940
pre-engineered1955
curtain-walled1959
pre-fabbed1959
timber-frame1967
system-built1968
flat-pack1982
1879 Manitoba Daily Free Press 5 Sept. 2/1 The Red River frame style of building houses is not adopted here.
1921 Beaver Feb. 15/2 The ‘big house’ was a two-and-a-half storey building, with a large kitchen behind, built from the same plan as the officers' dwellings in Fort Garry, and known as a Red River frame building.
1963 MacLeod & Morton Cuthbert Grant of Grantown 93 There on the western limit of his seigniory, Cuthbert Grant built the great log house, in the Red River frame style.
1991 R. C. Harris & J. Warkentin Canada before Confederation vi. 276 Assiniboia in the 1850s. W.G.R. Hind painted this scene of the Red River plain. The settler's house is of Red River frame construction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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