| 单词 | to litter down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto litter down 2. To furnish (a horse, etc.) with litter or straw for his bed; humorously, to provide (a person) with a bed. Also to litter down. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > bed down littera1398 strawc1440 bedc1480 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xli. 1190 The colte is nouȝt ylitered wiþ strawe, nouþer ycorrayed wiþ horse combe. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 374 It shal be necessary to keepe him warme..by littering him vp to the belly with fresh straw. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 30 Tell them how they litter their Jades and exercise Merchandize in the House of God. 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved viii. 131 Bedding or littering him down with dry clean Straw. 1799 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1893) XIV. 220 That the stock may be well fed,—littered,—and taken care of according to the directions. 1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg i, in New Monthly Mag. 60 85 One is litter'd under a roof, Neither wind nor water proof. 1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 221 Let him be returned to the stable, littered down. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 112 Thrashing straw to litter the large stock of cattle he had on hand. < as lemmas |
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