单词 | stud-bred |
释义 | > as lemmasstud-bred stud-bred adj. and n. Anglo-Indian (now historical and rare) (a) adj. designating a thoroughbred horse bred in a stud farm belonging to the East India Company or (later) the British Raj; (b) n. a stud-bred horse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > equus caballus or horse > [noun] > horse or group kept for breeding studOE race1533 stud-bred1820 1820 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Mar. 254/2 The stud bred horses are longer in coming to their full size and strength than either Arab or country horses. 1840 J. Outram Rough Notes Campaign Sinde & Affghanistan xii. 77 A few Cape horses lately imported to the Bombay Army, have also proved themselves superior to our stud breds. 1914 J. Vaughan in A. E. Wardrop Mod. Pig-sticking viii. 132 Waler troop horses make excellent pig-stickers. Stud breds are handy but slow. 1975 Marquess of Anglesey Hist. Brit. Cavalry II. x. 435 There were about thirteen distinct breeds of horse in India. Some of them, like the Kathiawar..were bigger than the average stud-bred. 2011 K. Roy War, Culture & Society in Early Mod. S. Asia vi. 152 While the EIC [= East India Company] depended on stud-bred horses, Dal Khalsa depended on the horses raised in Punjab. < as lemmas |
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