英语词汇“nester”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

nester

释义

ˈnester
[f. nest v. + -er¹.]
1. A bird that is building, or has built, a nest.
1887Ibis 95 It [sc. Cisticola cursitans] is both an early and late nester.1895Daily News 20 Apr. 9/1 The preservers of our Heronry..noted a falling off in the number of nesters.
2. N. Amer. An opprobrious term for a person who settles permanently in a cattle-grazing region as a farmer, homesteader, etc. (Cf. nest v. 2 c.)
1880Ft. Griffin (Tex.) Echo 3 Jan., [A sheep man is] a tramp, an ingrate, a ‘Nester’, and a liar.1907C. E. Mulford Bar-20 xix. 192 Ain't th' Panhandle full of nesters (farmers)?1918― Man from Bar-20 iii. 27 He had found the ruins of a burned homestead..and he guessed that it had been used by ‘nesters’.1970Alberta Hist. Rev. Summer 9/2 The one small cloud on this otherwise sunny horizon was the would-be farmer, or as he was more inhospitably known to the cattlemen—the ‘sodbuster’ or ‘nester’.1973R. D. Symons Where Wagon Led p. xx, You plant a garden and someone'll see it an' we'll have nesters.

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