| 单词 | bird-minder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbird-minder bird-minder n. chiefly U.S. regional (southern); now historical a person employed to prevent birds from eating a crop, typically by scaring them away. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > driving away birds > bird-scarer crow-keeper1562 field keeper1620 bird-boy1786 crow-herd1805 bird-minder1828 crow-minder1837 rook-boy1856 crow-boy1868 tenting-lad1877 tent-boy1888 tending boy1898 scarer1930 1828 Southern Agriculturist Nov. 496 The bird-minder is desired, in the spring season, to shoot principally the hen bird. 1942 J. S. Pudney Green Grass grew all Round (1944) viii. 52 I can remember the bird-minders arriving every year to look after the cherry orchards. 2013 Environmental Hist. 18 143 As a young boy, he had served as a ‘bird-minder’ on the plantation, waiting at daybreak to scare birds away from the valuable rice crops. < as lemmas |
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