单词 | swanner |
释义 | swannern. = swanherd n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping of swans > keeper of swans swanherd1482 swanner1524 gamester1593 1524 in Archaeologia (1812) 16 155 The King's Swannerd, or his Deputy, shall give warning unto the rest of the Swanners, when that he..will go a rowing,..for to go a merkinge..of any other swans. 1555 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 260 Payed to swanners for there fee ijs. vjd. 1594–5 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 596 [Five shillings] to a Swaner for bringing a swane mark. 1842 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 45/2 The swan with two nicks, the way in which the swanner still marks his birds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1524 |
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