“high、blower”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

high-blower

释义

high-blower
A horse that makes a ‘blowing’ noise by flapping the nostrils at each expiration in galloping; also sometimes euphemistically applied to a ‘roarer’. So high-blowing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1831Youatt Horse xii. (1847) 254 Eclipse was a ‘high-blower’.1856H. H. Dixon Post & Paddock ii. 35 The high-blowing Humphrey Clinker [race-horse so named].Ibid. iii. 55 A roarer—or, politely speaking..‘a high blower’.1881Sir F. Fitzwygram Horses & Stables iii. xxiii. (ed. 2) 300 High Blowers. The noise, which some horses make by flapping the alæ of their nostrils, has occasionally been mistaken by inexperienced people for roaring.1891M. H. Hayes Veterinary Notes xi. (ed. 4) 304 Highblowing is not a disease, but is simply produced by the flapping of the horse's nostrils when he expels air quickly from his lungs.

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