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单词 swaledale
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Swaledalen.

/ˈsweɪldeɪl/
Etymology: < Swaledale, the name of a region of North Yorkshire.
Used absol. or attributively to designate a long-woolled sheep of the hardy hill breed first developed in the Swaledale area; (also) the breed itself or the long coarse wool produced by a sheep of this kind.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > specific breeds or members of > Yorkshire or Lancashire breeds
Lonk1863
Wensleydale1893
Swaledale1916
Masham1951
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > from sheep > from specific variety of sheep
mouflon1888
Lonk1940
Swaledale1971
1916 W. J. Malden Brit. Sheep & Shepherding vi. 58 Among the remaining breeds of the northern hills may be mentioned the Swaledale, a very hardy breed.
1944 G. Henderson Farming Ladder i. 24 The stock consisted of 650 Blackfaced mountain ewes, and thirty pedigree Swaledales.
1961 J. Gunston Profit from Sheep ii. 22 Swaledales..do very well in a wide range of hard-grazing and cold districts.
1971 Farmers Weekly 19 Mar. 43/3 Certain wool types such as Blackface, Devon and Swaledale have met a better market demand than others.
1980 Times 3 Mar. 16/2 A Pennine farmer..was saving 50 bales of hay a day among his Swaledale ewes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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