单词 | trapper |
释义 | trappern.1 Obsolete exc. Historical. A covering put over a horse or other beast of burden, made of metal or leather for purpose of defence, or of cloth for shelter and adornment; trapping; housing. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [noun] trappera1400 habiliment1470 bard1520 bardingc1540 barb1566 cooperison1586 caparison1598 housing1698 barbing1799 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > trappings, housing, or caparison steed shrouda1300 coverturec1300 trap13.. horse-house1316 attiringa1375 trapping1398 trappera1400 saddlecloth1415 house1463 foot-cloth1480 summock1506 reparelling1513 base1548 furniture1553 coperture1555 housing-cloth1569 caparison1602 footmantlec1610 bear gear1613 horse-furniture1613 bearing gear1616 housing1698 pad-cloth1795 rumbler1849 a1400 Coer de L. 2262 Ten hundred stedes good and sure King Richard let array in trappure. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxvi. 123 Þai hafe..trappour to þaire hors. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1641 The sheldes brighte, testers, and trappures Goldhewen helmes, hauberkes, cote armures. 1459 in Paston Lett. I. 477 j. pece of skarlot for trappars for horsys. 1463 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 215 To John Wysnacke the same day,..ffor steynynge off my masterys traperys, iij. s. iiij. d. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur i. xvi. 58 The swerd..cut thorow the trappere of stele. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. v. 194 Thair brusit trappouris and patrellis reddy boun. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxvv His horse trapped in blew veluet..which trapper was borne by fotemen from the grounde. 1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia iii. 141 The trappers seem'd to houer Like wings..As the Horse pranc'd. 1891 Athenæum 23 May 670/3 His opinion that the long~shanked spur was for use when the horse was covered with a trapper. 1902 Jrnl. Archæol. Inst. Mar. 74 A chain-mail trapper beneath the textile. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2021). trappern.2 1. One who sets traps or snares; spec. one engaged in trapping wild animals for their furs. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > hunter using traps snarer1597 trapper1768 nooser1859 wirer1864 trappist1880 1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. 338 The trappers..bait the trap with a meal worm..Ten or a dozen nightingales have been caught in a day. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie II. i. 7 The hunters and trappers on La Platte. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 31 Trappers and hunters..with their valuable skins and furs. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 84 A sudden..cry, As of a wild thing taken in the trap, Which sees the trapper coming thro' the wood. 2. A boy stationed to open and shut a trapdoor for the passage of trams in a coal-mine. Also trapper-boy, trapper-lad. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc. coal putter1708 foal1770 onsetter1789 putter1812 headsman1813 trapper1815 thruster1825 trammer1839 train boy1852 tram1856 hanger-on1858 tipper1861 hooker-on?1881 jiggerer?1881 hitcher1890 tub-loader1891 haulier1892 tilter1892 unhooker1892 flatter1894 jagger1900 thrutcher1901 tram-boy1904 filler1921 1815 Ann. Philos. 6 114 The trappers have seats near their doors, and remain by them all the time the pit is at work. 1845 C. Norton Child of Islands 22 So lives the little Trapper underground: No glittering sunshine streaks the oosy wall. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Aug. 1/3 Mrs. Keir Hardie..began life as a trapper boy in a mine. 1900 Daily News 14 Feb. 3/2 Here and there [i.e. in a coal-mine]..are placed the ventilating doorways, or traps. At each of these sits the little trapper lad alone in the silent gloom. 3. One who manages a trap in trap-shooting: cf. trap n.1 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > trap-shooting > [noun] > manager of trap trappera1892 a1892 Hurlingham Club Rules for Pigeon Shooting §6 If, in the opinion of the referee, the shooter is balked by any antagonist or looker-on, or by the trapper,..he may be allowed another bird. 1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 246 It is best to take no heed either of bystanders or trappers when going to the mark. 4. colloquial. A horse which draws a ‘trap’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls vehicle > of specific type (miscellaneous) chareter1601 gigstera1812 van horse1820 cab horse1828 cabber1832 stanhope horse1836 vanner1854 sledder1869 trapper1883 trammer1889 fly-horse1891 busser1894 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Apr. 4/1 The hard-worked ‘trapper’..munches his oats in solitude in many a stable. 1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 57 I..made a journey to Tattersall's, and bought a very clever trapper, a bay mare. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † trapperv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To cover or adorn with trappings. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautify [verb (transitive)] > ornament dightc1200 begoa1225 fay?c1225 rustc1275 duba1300 shrouda1300 adorna1325 flourishc1325 apparel1366 depaintc1374 dressa1375 raila1375 anorna1382 orna1382 honourc1390 paintc1390 pare1393 garnisha1400 mensk?a1400 apykec1400 hightlec1400 overfretc1440 exornc1450 embroider1460 repair1484 empare1490 ornate1490 bedo?a1500 purfle?a1500 glorify?1504 betrap1509 broider1509 deck?1521 likelya1522 to set forth1530 exornate1539 grace1548 adornate1550 fardc1550 gaud1554 pink1558 bedeck1559 tight1572 begaud1579 embellish1579 bepounce1582 parela1586 flower1587 ornify1590 illustrate1592 tinsel1594 formalize1595 adore1596 suborn1596 trapper1597 condecorate1599 diamondize1600 furnish1600 enrich1601 mense1602 prank1605 overgreen1609 crown1611 enjewel1611 broocha1616 varnish1641 ornament1650 array1652 bedub1657 bespangle1675 irradiate1717 gem1747 begem1749 redeck1771 blazon1813 aggrace1825 diamond1839 panoply1851 1597 G. Harvey Trimming T. Nashe in Wks. (1885) III. 56 His fierie steedes trapperd in their caparisons. ?1623 O. Felltham Resolues lxxxiii. 271 To see how Vice goes trapperd [later edd. trapped] with rich furniture. 1633 T. Scott High-waies of God 17 As for fear, it's too base an humour to trapper justice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1a1400n.21768v.1597 |
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