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单词 swan-upping
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swan-uppingn.

Forms: Also corruptly swan-hopping n.
Etymology: See upping n.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈswan-ˌupping.
The action or practice of ‘upping’ or taking up swans and marking them with nicks on the beak in token of being owned by the crown or some corporation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping of swans > marking of swan
upping1560
swan-hopping1598
swan-upping1810
swan-marking1900
1570 in Archaeologia (1847) 32 428 The Maister of the Swannes is to haue for euery white Swanne and gray vpping a penny.]
1810 J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day (1861) 194 Swan-upping..has been changed..into Swan-hopping.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 Feb. 1/2 The ‘swan-uppings’ on the Thames of the Vintners and Dyers.

Derivatives

ˈswan-ˌupper n. an official who takes up and marks swans.
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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
1557 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 272 The charges goynge wt the swane uppers iij dayes vj s. iiij d.
1913 Standard 25 July 13 The little company of swan-uppers which annually leaves Southwark.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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