单词 | red river |
释义 | Red Rivern. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1857 |
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