| 单词 | catching pen |
| 释义 | > as lemmascatching pen catching pen n. originally Australian a pen in which farm animals may be caught and temporarily confined; spec. a pen in a shearing shed from which the shearer takes the sheep to be shorn. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > pens used before or after shearing catching pen1826 sweating-house1832 counting-out pen1874 sweating pen1882 1826 J. Atkinson Acct. Agric. & Grazing New S. Wales v. 99 The catching pen will be found very handy, for the purpose of catching young heifers. 1851 Sydney Morning Herald 13 Jan. (advt.) There is a strongly built wool shed..and sheep yards adjoining. The catching pens are all battened. 1954 Daily News-Bull. (Brookfield, Missouri) 21 Sept. 3/2 The catching pen should be..small enough so that only a few birds may be driven in at a time. 2003 Times 3 Oct. 16/4 The..study..investigated precisely how much force needs to be exerted to pull a sheep across the floor of the ‘catching pen’ to the shearer's workstation. < as lemmas |
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