| 单词 | ship of burden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasship of burden 7. The bearing of loads, as in beast of burden, ship of burden (= merchant-ship). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] > of loads burdena1400 the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > work animals > beast of burden widgeeOE beastc1300 jument1382 aver?a1513 sumpter1526 sumpture1567 beast of carriage1586 beast of burden1740 sumpter1821 pack animal1846 shavetail1846 baggage-animal1852 baggager1859 pack1866 packer1875 α. β. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. l. 222 With nine thousand and thirty eight great ships of burden.1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 385 Dogs drawing in carts as beasts of burden.1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. x. 110 To do the work that was most like that of a beast of burden.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5520 Halds þam..In birthþin, bath to bere and drau. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 112 Which before Tall Ships of burthen, on its Bosom bore. View more context for this quotation 1740 S. Johnson Drake in Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 603 Peruvian Sheep, which are the Beasts of Burthen in that Country. 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 199 Every animal..of the description of a beast of burthen. < as lemmas |
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