单词 | tod hunter |
释义 | > as lemmastod hunter tod hunter n. now rare a person employed to exterminate foxes.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΚΠ 1332 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Eng. Surnames (1991) 449 Thomas Todhunter. 1833 Sporting Mag. Jan. 201/1 The old tod-hunter's detail of the extraordinary night-run. 1882 Standard 10 Feb. 5/3 The ‘Tod-hunter’, who last century was kept in the Western Isles for the purpose of exterminating the foxes. 1934 Scotsman 26 Apr. 11/3 I have spent many happy days with the local tod hunter in the hills of Perthshire and Argyllshire even in recent years. < as lemmas |
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