请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 swannery
释义

swanneryn.

/ˈswɒnəri/
Forms: Also 1700s swanery.
Etymology: Formed as swanner n.: see -ery suffix. Compare Middle Dutch zwaenerie right to keep swans.
1. The keeping of swans (?). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping of swans
swannery1570
1570 in Archaeologia (1812) 16 159 The true Copy of an old Paper, touching the Swannery found among my Father's Books, and intituled a Copy of the Ordinances for Swans, &c.
2. A place where swans are kept and reared.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > keeping of swans > place where swans kept
swannery1754
1754 R. Pococke Trav. (Camden) 95 At the swanery..the walls are built of a stone full of shells.
a1773 J. Hutchins Hist. Dorset (1774) I. 538/1 A little W. of the town [sc. Abbotsbury] is a noble swannery, much visited by strangers.
1888 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 857/2 How many years previous to that time the abbots..had ‘enjoyed’ the privilege of maintaining a swannery is not recorded.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
n.1570
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/3 10:41:02