| 单词 | blackbird-catching |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblackbird-catching blackbird-catching n. slang (now historical) taking into slavery or as indentured labour. ΚΠ 1853Blackbird-catching [see sense 3a]. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Blackbird-catching,..slang for the slave-trade. 1902 A. Lang Disentanglers xi. 303 ‘He was never in the Labour trade.’ ‘Blackbird catching?.. No.’ 1948 H. Wolhuter Memories Game-ranger 71 He presently settled down to what, in those days, was called ‘blackbird-catching’—recruiting natives for the mines without a licence. < as lemmas |
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