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单词 wine boer
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wine boer
b. With distinguishing epithet, designating a particular type of farmer, as cattle boer, corn boer, wine boer, etc. Now historical.
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1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope II. xiv. 249 In their company..came to this place a husbandman, or, as they are usually called here, a corn-boor, from the country near Cape Town.
1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope II. xiv. 327 This tract of country..was so well inhabited, (chiefly by wine-boors) that I could not find room for distinguishing all the farms with the usual circular mark in my map.
1809 Ld. Caledon in G. M. Theal Rec. Cape Colony (1900) VII. 189 Relays of Post Boors, which it is found necessary to hold in readiness for the purpose of keeping up a fixed mode of communication between Cape Town and the Country Districts.
1827 G. Thompson Trav. I. 66 Where he resides, had been formerly occupied by an extensive cattle boor, who had left a memorable monument of his residence in a prodigious dunghill just in front of the house.
1835 G. Champion Jrnl. (1968) 11 He was a wine boor (or farmer) living upon the products of his vineyard.
1905 P. Gibbon Vrouw Grobelaar's Leading Cases 89 He was, of course, a cattle Boer, as all of our family have always been.
1977 R. Elphick Kraal & Castle xi. 223 P. J. van der Merwe has shown that the hunting experience was important in the formation of the cattle boer culture.
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