单词 | Galvayne |
释义 | Galvayne|ˈgælveɪn| The name of Sidney Galvayne, a writer on horses, used attrib. to designate a method or devices for breaking in a horse; so as v. trans., to break in (a horse) by Galvayne's method; so Galˈvayning vbl. n. Also Galvayne's mark (see quot. 1908).
1905S. Galvayne 20th Cent. Bk. Horse 23 ‘Galvayning’ is really a scientific utilization of the animal's strength against itself... The ‘Galvayne’ position is attained by tying the animal's head round with the halter-shank, or the ‘Galvayne’ strap, to its tail. Ibid. 29 Once you have got the horse properly ‘Galvayned’, watch it carefully for a little while before proceeding further. Ibid. 32 If the animal be ‘Galvayned’ on the ‘near’ side, the trainer must work on the ‘off’. 1908Animal Managem. 43 At ten years ‘Galvayne's mark’, a depression on the outer side of the upper corner incisor, appears. 1911Encycl. Brit. XIII. 725/1 Galvayning is accomplished by bending the horse's neck round at an angle of thirty-five to forty degrees and tieing the halter to the tail. 1942‘M. Innes’ Daffodil Affair i. v. 31 Well I always suspected rareying with Daffodil—though, mind you, it may have been galvayning all the same. |

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