| 单词 | sweating pen |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweating pen sweating pen n. Australian a pen in which sheep are kept (formerly, to sweat so as to soften the wool) before shearing; = holding pen n. at holding n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > pens used before or after shearing catching pen1826 sweating-house1832 counting-out pen1874 sweating pen1882 1882 A. S. Armstrong & G. O. Campbell Austral. Sheep Husbandry xv. 176 On each side of the board are built the sheep pens, which are filled from a race on each side..which is in its turn filled from the sweating pen. c1929 H. B. Smith Sheep & Wool Industry Austral. & N.Z. (ed. 3) x. 73 After drafting, the sheep to be shorn are run up a ramp into the sweating pens of the shed. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 29 Sweating pen, sometimes used in the same sense as ‘holding pen’, although there is no longer any suggestion of deliberately ‘sweating’ the sheep. < as lemmas |
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