单词 | wormstall |
释义 | † wormstalln. Obsolete. An outdoor shelter for cattle in warm weather. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > housing or sheltering of cattle > cattle pen or shelter wormstall1601 cow-pen1635 bull-pen1809 cattle-pen1837 bawn1850 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xxxiii Drive thy sheepe and cattaile out of the Sunne, into some worme-stall and place of shade. 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. Former Pt. ii. A 4 The shelter will..be an excellent wormestall for cattell in the summer. 1703 R. Thoresby Let. 27 Apr. in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 430 Wormstall, shelter for cattle in hot weather. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1601 |
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