单词 | stock carp |
释义 | > as lemmasstock carp (b) Indicating an animal that is chosen or kept for breeding purposes, as stock carp, stock dog, stock mare, etc. Also stock-getter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > [adjective] > kept for breeding holding1547 store1602 stock1785 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > cyprinus carpio (carp) > kept for breeding stock carp1785 1785 J. Woodforde Diary 20 Oct. (1926) II. 211 Mr. Townshend..sent me 20 brace and ½ of stock Carp. 1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 222 The season throughout has been remarkably favourable to stock sheep. 1854 Poultry Chron. 2 404 The purchase of fowls intended for stock~birds should not now be delayed. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 15/2 A black tan terrier..which was the greatest stock dog in London of that day. 1862 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 31 A handsome little stock-mare. 1862 ‘The Druid’ Scott & Sebright 165 Till within the last three years he [a stallion] was a very sure stock-getter. 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 74 It..is only advisable with some very special stock-ram, whose progeny are valuable. 1891 Cent. Dict. Stock-fish,..fish adapted or used for stocking rivers, ponds, lakes, etc. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 16/2 Another hundred good stock trout have been placed in the Henley waters. 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 219/1 It is very difficult to get good stock-ducks of the pure Aylesbury strain. < as lemmas |
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