单词 | wattled fold |
释义 | > as lemmaswattled fold b. Said of a sheepfold. Chiefly poetic in wattled cote, wattled pen, wattled fold. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [adjective] > wattled fold wattled1637 1637 J. Milton Comus 12 Might we but heare The folded flocks pen'd in their watled cotes. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 71 The gather'd Flocks Are in the wattled Pen innumerous press'd. 1753 T. Warton Ode Approach of Summer 99 His wattled cotes the shepherd plants. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory iv, in Poems 62 The livelong bleat Of the thickfleecéd sheep from wattled folds. 1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 201 Go, Shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes. 1886 J. R. Lowell Democracy (1887) 193 The wattled fold they were rearing here on the edge of the wilderness. < as lemmas |
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