单词 | swan-hopper |
释义 | swan-hoppern. = swan-upper n. at swan-upping n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping of swans > marking of swan > one who swan-upper1557 swan-hopper1641 swan-marker1842 1641–2 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 595 Ricardo Roby le Swanhopper pro le 9 Swans 1l. 9s. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 914 The..unsuspecting swan-hoppers. 1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 12 They [sc. the horses] did not half tumble about; neither did the swan-hoppers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1641 |
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