单词 | spayard |
释义 | spayardn. Now only archaic. A male deer in its third year. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > in its third year spayarda1425 sorrel1486 spire1856 α. β. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 235 An Hart is called the firste yeare a Calfe, the seconde a Brocket, the thirde a Spayde.1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. v. 888 Your Hart is the first yeare a Calfe,..the third yeare a Spade.1627 J. Taylor Armado sig. D1v So a Hart is the first yeare a Calfe,..the third a Spaide.1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Spaid, or Spayad [in later dicts. Spayed, Spayd], a term used by Hunters, a red male Deer of three years old.1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Spade,..a deer three years old.γ. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. iii. iv. 226/1 I find that the yoong male is called in the first yeere a calfe, in the second a broket, the third a spaie.1906 A. Conan Doyle Sir Nigel xiii. 163 Great his anxiety lest he confuse a spay with a brocket.a1425 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 151 The fyrst yere he is a calfe, the secunde yere a broket, the .iij. yere a spayer. 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hunting e j b The secunde yere a Broket... The therde yere a Spayad. 1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest iv. f. 24 The third yeare, you shall call him, a Spayad. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xiv. 175 The Third yeares, you shall call them Spayade. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 132/1 An Hart, is called 1 yeare a Hind,..3 a Spayade or Spayde. 1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 517 In this condition he is called a ‘spayard’. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Spayart,..a male deer of three years old. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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