stirk如何读

英:[stɜːk]

美:[stək]

stirk是什么意思

  • [苏]一两岁的牛犊

stirk英英释义

noun

a young bull or cow especially between one and two years old

stirk词源英文解释

Middle English, from Old English stirc; akin to Middle Low German sterke young cow and perhaps to Goth stairo sterile animal — more at sterile

The first known use of stirk was before the 12th century

stirk 例句

1 At the same fair next year we had bought, as we found on comparing our books, ninety-nine cattle, mostly stirks.

2 Brangwen left her there, in charge of the barman, whilst he went to see about the selling of some young stirks.

3 I drew nigher without being perceived, and the light still holding, saw that 'twas a young stirk or heifer the man was disembowelling.

4 It was a full and satisfying paper, with its agricultural advertisements, its roups, reported with an accuracy of detail that condescended on a solitary stirk, its local intelligence, its facetious anecdotes.

5 How much would you want for a good, fat stirk?

6 The oxen were large and well-fleshed, but not fat; and we bought an ox for two knives, and a stirk, or young beast, for one knife.

7 "No wonderful, lasting treasure was this precious prize for us," said Cormac, "that cannot defend himself against a stirk of his own age!"

8 The childer came back frae school, and then Mike came, and the first thing he axed was if Amos had gotten back wi' the stirks.

9 At a very good Hallow Fair, I had forty small-horned Cabrach beasts and forty small polled stirks standing alongside of each other.

10 I have doubled stirks at Hallow Fair, buying them at from £2 to £4, and, to use an Aberdeen expression, turning them heels over heads.

11 He was "big as a stirk," one informant has declared The "fearsome tail" appears to have been not the least impressive thing about it.

12 He's no a stirk o' the right stock.

13 I have no mind to waste a half-spent thrall To prove I love you; and to buy another Would need more money than eight red-polled stirks.

14 Young men, sir, dinna enter Aberdeen University stirks and come out cuddies?”

15 I'm afraid your Ladyship will frighten our stirks and stots with your finery.

16 He selected them generally when stirks from all the eminent breeders of Galloway cattle, and bought nearly all the prize stirks at the different shows.

17 "He watched all last night while we slept away like a pair o' stirks."

18 The time passed, and Giles saw before him nothing but the necessity of driving the stirks back again to Kelpiehaugh—an operation he by no means relished.

19 "And leave us neither stirk nor stot," said the youngest brother, who now entered, "nor sheep nor lamb, nor aught that eats grass and corn."

20 Confound these stirks—if that white one, with caving horns, kicking heels, and straight-up tail, come bellowing by between us and the river, then, "Madam! all is lost, except honour!"

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