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单词 to stand at stud
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to stand at stud
7. intransitive. Of a horse: to be kept in a stable, stall, etc.; to be stabled (cf. to stand at livery). Also of a stallion: to be kept or made available as a stud horse (also more fully to stand at stud). Occasionally also transitive: to keep (a horse) in a stable, stall, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (intransitive)] > be kept in stable
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by gender or age > [verb (intransitive)] > serve mares (of stallion)
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c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 8664 (MED) From her schipes þei had moche ado Or þei myȝt han her hors to londe And to ordeyn wher þei schuld stonde.
?1465 J. Wymondham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 312 As touching a stabil, Ser John Sparham and I haue gote yow on þer your hors stode the last tyme ye were in this town.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Stabulo, to stande as cattayle dothe in a stable.
1676 London Gaz. No. 1072/4 Gentlemens Accompts, for Horses standing in the Kings Head near Charing-cross.
1766 Virginia Gaz. 4 Apr. 3/3 Merry Tom Stands at my house, and covers mares at a guinea the leap.
1828 R. Darvill Treat. Race Horse I. x. 240 The race-course, at Richmond..is the most convenient for horses which stand in the town to sweat over.
1881 Coffee Public-House News 1 Nov. 125/2 One want has been discovered, viz., the want of good stable accommodation for the market men to stand their horses.
1891 J. L. Kipling Beast & Man in India viii. 207 Importing English thoroughbreds, Arabs, and Norfolk trotters who stand as sires at the service of farmers.
1974 D. Francis Knock Down xiv. 171 Nestegg is standing at stud in Ireland.
2013 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 6 Oct. 57 Brian Russell brought back memories of a stallion named after the northern rivers city of Grafton. The horse stood at Widden in the Hunter Valley.
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