单词 | strandlooper |
释义 | Strandloopern. 1. South African. Any of several sand-plovers of the genus Charadrius, found in coastal regions. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius leschenaultii snite1694 strand-runner1706 Strandlooper1731 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 157 The Dutch call this Bird Strand Loper, i.e. Shore-Courser. 1875–84 R. B. Sharpe Layard's Birds S. Afr. 662 Ægialitis tricollaris (Vieill.)... This pretty little Plover, the Strandlooper of the colonists, is common throughout the colony. 1972 Evening Post (Port Elizabeth) 9 Sept. 2 They [sc. ostriches] find the little sandplovers (strandlopertjies) on the farm a nuisance. These little birds dart at them frequently.] 2. South African. a. A member of a people, related to the San and Koekhoe, living on the southern shores of South Africa from prehistoric times until the second millennium a.d. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Southern Africa > [noun] > Strandlooper Strandlooper1838 1838 D. Moodie tr. J. van Riebeck's Jrnl. in Record i. 16 In the evening some of the Saldania Ottentoos came to the Fort... These two Saldaniers were much bolder and livelier men than the Strandlopers who daily live with us, but still having the same language and clothing. 1846 J. Sutherland Mem. Kaffirs S. Afr. II. 29 For a little tobacco the strandloopers will always fetch firewood for the cooks. 1900 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 30 47 I have not much to say about the remains of the ‘strand loopers’ or ‘shore walkers’, as they have been called, from their habit of life. 1913 Daily News 16 Dec. 9 The Strandlopers lived on the coast before the Dutch went into South Africa. 1919 H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. ii. 23 This Strandlooper either co-existed alongside the Bushman or preceded and was followed by this specialized desert negro. 1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods i. 11 There is reason to think that this race [sc. Boskop Man] was the ancestor of the modern South African Hottentot and Bushman, for the remains of an intermediate type—the vanished race of Strandloopers—has been discovered and all three types agree in certain cranial characteristics. In size of brain, however, there is a steady diminution from the 1,700 c.c. or more of Boskop through the Strandlooper skulls. 1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse 121 The ridge of river-debris after the flood, ran along the base of these strandlooper~dunes. 1975 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 4 Aug. 4 A skeleton believed to be that of a Strandloper Hottentot, who was buried in the traditional position with legs drawn up and hands placed across the knees, has been unearthed near Sedgefield, the coastal resort. 1981 Sci. Amer. Aug. 92/1 They appeared to fill a niche at the edge of western Europe similar to that of the aboriginal Tasmanians in the Pacific, the Patagonians in sub-polar South America and the Hottentot ‘strandloopers’ of South Africa. b. A member of a people, perhaps to be identified with the above, found on the Namibian coast. ΚΠ 1948 L. G. Green So Few are Free xvi. 216 Some authorities believe that the ‘Strandlopers’, extinct in South Africa, may survive on the Kaokoveld coast. 1956 Cape Times 27 July 3/5 Three Hottentots of the strandloper race, said to be the last of their kind, attended a gathering of Kaokaoveld Natives addressed by..Dr. Verwoerd..in the north-west of South West Africa. 3. Archaeology. Usually plural. Any prehistoric people who were nomadic about coastal areas or inland shores. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] > types of nomads nomadesa1544 horde1555 Strandlooper1935 1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1 12 The strandloopers who have left the kitchen-middens in Denmark. 1939 V. G. Childe Dawn European Civilization (ed. 3) i. 8 Asturian is the term applied to the culture of strandloopers who succeeded the Azilians on the coasts of North Spain. 1956 Antiquity 30 48 A peripheral culture, which has lost its vitality, a ‘strand-loper’ type of existence. 1974 G. Jenkins Bridge of Magpies ii. 37 The investigation of sea-shore middens belonging to Strandlopers—‘Seashore Walkers’—who were a vanished Stone Age race of Sperrgebeit nomads. 1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles v. 103 In the north of Britain, and especially along the coasts of the North Channel, groups of people known as ‘Strandloopers’, who subsisted to a considerable extent on shellfish, are represented by the Larnian and Obanian industries. 4. A beachcomber or vagrant. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp harlot?c1225 raikera1400 vacabond1404 vagrant1444 gangrela1450 briber?c1475 palliard1484 vagabondc1485 rogue1489 wavenger1493 hermit1495 gaberlunzie1508 knight of the field1508 loiterer1530 straggler1530 runagate1534 ruffler1535 hedge-creeper1548 Abraham man1567 cursitor1567 runner1567 walker1567 tinker1575 traveller1598 Tartar1602 stravagant1606 wagand1614 Circumcellion1623 meechera1625 hedge-bird1631 gaberlunzie man1649 tramp1664 stroller1681 jockey1685 bird of passage1717 randy1724 tramper1760 stalko1804 vagabondager1813 rintherout1814 piker1838 pikey1838 beachcomber1840 roadster1851 vagabondizer1860 roustabout1862 bum1864 migratory1866 potter1867 sundowner1868 vag1868 walkabout1872 transient1877 Murrumbidgee whaler1878 rouster1882 run-the-hedge1882 whaler1883 shaughraun1884 heather-cat1886 hobo1889 tussocker1889 gay cat1893 overlander1898 stake-man1899 stiff1899 bindle-stiff1900 dingbat1902 stew-bum1902 tired Tim (also Timothy)1906 skipper1925 Strandlooper1927 knight of the road1928 hobohemian1936 plain turkey1955 scrub turkey1955 derro1963 jakey1988 crusty1990 1927 J. Joyce Contin. Work in Progress in transition No. 5. 19 What child of a strandlooper but keepy little Kevin..would ever have trouved up on a strate that was called strete a motive for future saintity by euchring the finding of the Ardagh chalice by another heily innocent and beachwalker. 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 87/2 The man turned out to be a strandlooper—a coloured beachcomber, one who shared the food of the gulls. Derivatives ˈstrandlooping adj. Archaeology nomadic about coastal areas or lake shores. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [adjective] > being nomadic strandlooping1959 1959 New Scientist 12 Mar. 562/1 The Kennet of about 7,000 years ago was a series of connected lakes surrounded by forest, a site which must have been ideal for a strand~looping people. 1975 J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles v. 105 For part of the year, the inhabitants probably forsook their industrial and strandlooping activities and moved inland to obtain their living by other means. ˈstrandlooping n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > nomads > [noun] > action of being strandlooping1976 1976 J. Hawkes Atlas of Early Man 44/2 Strand looping as well as fresh water and sea fishing intensified. 1978 R. Bradley Prehist. Settlement of Britain 94/1 Early fishing, fowling and strandlooping are all compatible with one another. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1731 |
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