单词 | swan-upping |
释义 | swan-uppingn. 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. 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 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. 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 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). < n.1557 |
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