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单词 thrinter
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thrinteradj.n.

/ˈθrɪntə/
Forms: Also 1500s trynter, thrwnter, thrwenter, 1800s thrunter (Scottish fronter, frunter).
Etymology: In Old English þri-winter, three-winter-, three-year-; but the word may have been formed anew in 16th cent., after twinter adj. and n.
Now dialect.
A. adj.
Of three winters; three years old: said of cattle and sheep.
ΚΠ
1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 341 Fyue thrwnter stotts at vl xiijs iiijd—iij thrwenter whyes at iiijl.
B. n.
A sheep or bovine animal of three years or winters (in later use applied only to sheep).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > of certain age
twinter1404
thrinter1535
runt1638
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by age > three years old
thrinter1535
three-shear1803
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 117/20 Trimus, uel triennis, uel trimulus, ðri-winter.]
1535–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 419 4 Trynters, 7 Twynters,..20 dynmontes, 23 hogges.
1577 in Hist. Soc. Lanc. & Chesh. LV–LVI. 27 Item. One other cowe... Item two thrinters.
1890 Cornhill Mag. Oct. 382 One of our thrunters, or three-winter-old ewes.
a1898 J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolmaster (1899) 339 ‘Twinters’ and ‘th [r] inters’, sic like names for sheep.
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