| 单词 |
rearer |
| 释义 |
rearer|ˈrɪərə(r)|
[f. rear v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who rears (in transitive senses, esp. sense 9).
1382Wyclif Judith xiv. 9 That not of the rereres, but of the noise makeris Olofernes shulde waken. 1611Cotgr., Esleveur, a rearer, breeder. 1767Lewis Statius x. 323 The Rearer of the Steed, When the kind Spring renews his gen'rous Breed [etc.]. 1841–3Anthon Class. Dict. 579 She..is, by the appointment of Jupiter, the rearer of children. 1880Daily News 23 Oct. 2/1 The demand of the English rearer of store cattle for Irish lean cattle.
2. A horse that rears, or has a habit of rearing.
1829Sporting Mag. XXIV. 89 In nine cases out of ten I have found that confirmed rearers are tender mouthed. 1882Daily News 1 June 3/1 He was a respectable rearer, and a hearty horse at a kick.
3. slang. (See quot.)
1827Sporting Mag. XXI. 131 We were favoured with..what is technically called ‘a rearer’, that is to say, the near side wheels went into a ditch deep enough to have turned us keel upwards.
4. Coal-mining. An edge-seam (see edge n. 12, and cf. rearing ppl. a. 1, quot. 1686).
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-mining 200. |
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