单词 | stone-horse |
释义 | stone-horsen. a. An uncastrated or entire horse; a stallion. Now only dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [noun] > male > stallion or stud-horse stud horseeOE stallion1390 steed-horsec1425 courser1483 mastard1598 stone-horse1600 stone-colt1691 seed horse1792 stud1803 foal-getter1809 entire1881 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. iii. 156 They carrie stone~horses about with them, which for a certaine fee, they will let others haue to couer their mares. 1679 T. Shadwell True Widow iii. 43 I'll hold you six to four of the Gelding against the Mare; gold to silver on the bay Stone-horse against the Flea-bitten. 1750 J. S. Gardiner Art & Pleasures of Hare-hunting ii. 13 The Doctor galloped his Grey Stone-Horse forty Miles an End. 1847 Nicolas Sir C. Hatton 340 In the 33rd Hen. VIII. an Act was passed that..every other person whose wife wore any French hood..should maintain one stone trotting horse. [The Act itself has stoned.] b. Applied allusively to a man. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] churla800 werec900 rinkeOE wapmanc950 heOE wyeOE gomeOE ledeOE seggeOE shalkOE manOE carmanlOE mother bairnc1225 hemea1250 mother sona1250 hind1297 buck1303 mister mana1325 piecec1325 groomc1330 man of mouldc1330 hathela1350 sire1362 malea1382 fellowa1393 guestc1394 sergeant?a1400 tailarda1400 tulka1400 harlotc1405 mother's sona1470 frekea1475 her1488 masculinea1500 gentlemana1513 horse?a1513 mutton?a1513 merchant1549 child1551 dick1553 sorrya1555 knavea1556 dandiprat1556 cove1567 rat1571 manling1573 bird1575 stone-horse1580 loona1586 shaver1592 slave1592 copemate1593 tit1594 dog1597 hima1599 prick1598 dingle-dangle1605 jade1608 dildoa1616 Roger1631 Johnny1648 boy1651 cod1653 cully1676 son of a bitch1697 cull1698 feller1699 chap1704 buff1708 son of a gun1708 buffer1749 codger1750 Mr1753 he-man1758 fella1778 gilla1790 gloak1795 joker1811 gory1819 covey1821 chappie1822 Charley1825 hombre1832 brother-man1839 rooster1840 blokie1841 hoss1843 Joe1846 guy1847 plug1848 chal1851 rye1851 omee1859 bloke1861 guffin1862 gadgie1865 mug1865 kerel1873 stiff1882 snoozer1884 geezer1885 josser1886 dude1895 gazabo1896 jasper1896 prairie dog1897 sport1897 crow-eater1899 papa1903 gink1906 stud1909 scout1912 head1913 beezer1914 jeff1917 pisser1918 bimbo1919 bozo1920 gee1921 mush1936 rye mush1936 basher1942 okie1943 mugger1945 cat1946 ou1949 tess1952 oke1970 bra1974 muzhik1993 1580 W. Fulke Discov. Daungerous Rocke in Retentiue 167 But what if your popish geldings, by neying at euery mans wife,..proue them selues to be stone horses. 1640 J. Shirley St. Patrick v. sig. H2 Cannot a Mare come into the ground, but you must be leaping you stone horses. c. attributive. ΚΠ 1546 in T. Phillipps Index Worcester Wills (c1830) 487 A stone horsse colte. 1728 E. Smith Compl. Housewife (ed. 2) 243 Strain the Posset on 7 or 9 globules of Stone-Horse dung tied up in a cloth. 1836 R. Furness Astrologer ii, in Wks. (1858) 152 Bear's grease,..fox-lungs, stone-horse warts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1546 |
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