| 单词 | stud department |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstud department stud department n. now historical a department of the British army responsible for breeding the stock of horses belonging to the East India Company or (later) the British Raj; (also) a department of the French government responsible for breeding its stock of horses. ΚΠ 1820 Morning Chron. 23 Feb. He was appointed..to the Staff in the Stud Department. 1873 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 437 The cahiers of grievances, sent up to the National Assembly of 1789, were full of complaints as to the operation of the Stud Department. 1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 413/1 Officers of the army specially appointed, belonging to the stud department... By a late order the name of stud has been changed to that of remount. 1908 Cavalry Jrnl. July 341 In France this taste for gambling provides, through the parimutuel, a great part of the money spent by the Stud Department. 2000 A. Mallinson Nizam's Daughters (2007) vi. 207 It was he who began the reform of the Company's stud department. < as lemmas |
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