英语词汇“shetland sheep”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. Designating a small, hardy, short-tailed variety of sheep originally bred in Shetland, occurring in a variety of colours, and having fine, soft wool; designating a sheep of this breed. Chiefly in Shetland sheep. [Compare earlier Zetland ewe (in quot. 1608 at Zetland n.).]

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1766 Public Advertiser 15 Aug. On Monday last was brought over in the Britannia Greenlandman twenty Shetland Sheep; they are extremely diminutive.

1793 Jrnl. in G. Rennie et al. Gen. View Agric. W. Riding Yorks. (1794) App. XI. 120 Examined Mr. Beaumont's flock of sheep: those of the Shetland breed are not doing well.

1851 Cultivator Sept. 299/1 Under this division was exhibited a fine Shetland ram and 5 pure Shetland ewes.

1891 6th & 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Animal Industry 1889–90 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 149 The Shetland sheep were never clipped or shorn, but about the beginning of June the wool was pulled off.

1954 D. Thomson People of Sea vi. 119 About two hundred tiny Shetland sheep were mewed, unhappily bedraggled, in pens against the wall.

1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 23 In her tiny shop in the oldest part of Lerwick, Elizabeth Fordyce spins her own yarn from the wool of the Shetland sheep.

2009 J. Michaels & R. Pomerantz Hudson River Valley Farms 9 (caption) A hungry Shetland lamb ready for its next meal.

单词	shetland sheep
释义	> as lemmas Shetland sheep 4. Designating a small, hardy, short-tailed variety of sheep originally bred in Shetland, occurring in a variety of colours, and having fine, soft wool; designating a sheep of this breed. Chiefly in Shetland sheep. [Compare earlier Zetland ewe (in quot. 1608 at Zetland n.).] ΚΠ 1766 Public Advertiser 15 Aug. On Monday last was brought over in the Britannia Greenlandman twenty Shetland Sheep; they are extremely diminutive. 1793 Jrnl. in G. Rennie et al. Gen. View Agric. W. Riding Yorks. (1794) App. XI. 120 Examined Mr. Beaumont's flock of sheep: those of the Shetland breed are not doing well. 1851 Cultivator Sept. 299/1 Under this division was exhibited a fine Shetland ram and 5 pure Shetland ewes. 1891 6th & 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Animal Industry 1889–90 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 149 The Shetland sheep were never clipped or shorn, but about the beginning of June the wool was pulled off. 1954 D. Thomson People of Sea vi. 119 About two hundred tiny Shetland sheep were mewed, unhappily bedraggled, in pens against the wall. 1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 6 Aug. 23 In her tiny shop in the oldest part of Lerwick, Elizabeth Fordyce spins her own yarn from the wool of the Shetland sheep. 2009 J. Michaels & R. Pomerantz Hudson River Valley Farms 9 (caption) A hungry Shetland lamb ready for its next meal. extracted from Shetlandn. < as lemmas
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