单词 | swine breed |
释义 | > as lemmasswine breed C1. General attributive, as swine breed, swine dung, etc. ΚΠ OE Will of Æðelgifu (Sawyer 1497) in J. Crick Charters of St. Albans (2007) 146 Selle man Leofsige..þæt lond æt Twingum him to swinlande. 1287–8 in W. Hudson Leet Jurisdict. Norwich (1892) 8 De portis de Swynemarket usque ad risgate. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 441 Rumford, the glorie whereof dependeth on a swine mercat. 1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. x. 176 And swine-shape they had, and the voice..of the boar. 1916 Reclam. Rec. May 217/2 The swine population on the North Platte has practically trebled since 1912. 1971 Asian Surv. 11 328 Controlled cross-breeding programs can improve characteristics of native swine breeds. 2010 New Vision (Kampala) (Nexis) 6 Feb. The smell of petrol has already been replaced by the putrid stench of swine dung. < as lemmas |
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