单词 | swan-mark |
释义 | swan-markn. An official mark of ownership cut on the beak of a swan, on the occasion of swan-upping (swan-upping n.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping of swans > marking of swan > mark swan-mark1550 gap1558 footmark1614 neb-marka1642 the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Cyginae (swans) > [noun] > member of genus Cygnus (miscellaneous) > cygnus olor (common swan) > branded swan(s) mark1482 swan-mark1550 ground-bird1560 1550 Will of William of Leonade Bawdrey (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/33) f. 106 My ij swanne markes that ys to say my fyrst Swanne male and an other that I bought of John Clymson..for the whyche marke I payed lx8 in this towne. c1560 in Proc. Archæol. Inst., Lincoln (1850) 309 If any person..by sale, or exchaunge have obteined any swan~marke, and hath any game of the same. 1592 Will of Richard Buckworth (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/79) f. 296v I geue to my son my Swanne mark called the ancor. 1602–3 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 595 Bond for going to St Iues about our swanmarke xijd. 1662–3 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 595 For the Alienacion of the Swanne marke, 00. 07. 08. 1842 [see swan-marker n. at Derivatives]. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads (1884) xxix. 225 This privilege of swan-mark was a heritable property. 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 438 One of the doors..has the College swan-mark engraved upon it. Derivatives ˈswan-ˌmarker n. an official who marks swans, a swan-upper. 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 1842 Penny Cycl. XXIII. 372/1 In creating this privilege the crown grants a swan-mark (cygninota), for a game of swans... The swan-markers of the crown and the two Companies [sc. Dyers and Vintners] of the city of London go up the river [Thames] for the purpose of..marking the young birds. ˈswan-ˌmarking n. the operation of marking swans. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping of swans > marking of swan upping1560 swan-hopping1598 swan-upping1810 swan-marking1900 1900 Daily News 27 Sept. 5/1 This year's swan-marking. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1550 |
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