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单词 warrener
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warrener

/ˈwɒr(ə)nə /
noun British historical
1A gamekeeper.This was probably the era of the warreners when the landlords right to free warren was leased out....
  • The Chunn family are recorded as warreners in Twickenham for about 150 years from early in the 17th century.
  • There are ruins of a two-storeyed medieval warreners' lodge, just 2 miles west of Thetford, off B1107.
1.1A keeper of a rabbit warren.Woodland names on the wold-top above preserve the name ‘Conygre’, indicating a conigree or warren, probably of post-medieval date, where rabbits were bred in artificial linear mounds kept by a warrener....
  • Meet local people from Thetford's past, from the revolutionary philosopher Thomas Paine to the Sikh hero Maharajah Duleep Singh and from rabbit warreners to railway workers.
  • The Breckland Heath has always been interfered with by ancient flint workers and farmers, the military, the rabbits and the rabbit warreners.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French warener, from warenne 'game park'.

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