| 单词 | poley-mountain |
| 释义 | ▪ I. poley, polley, a. and n. Eng. dial., Austral., N.Z., and U.S.|ˈpəʊlɪ|
Also polly.
[f. poll n.5 + -y.]
A. adj. Hornless, polled. Also fig.
1844Port Phillip Patriot 4 July 1/5 Impounded..one mouse-coloured poley cow. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xxix, If it had been any other beast which knocked me down but that poley heifer, I should have been hurt! 1872C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland 83 A polley cow. Hornless cattle are so called. 1876Surrey Gloss., Poly-cow, a cow without horns. 1901M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xxviii. 233 A couple of dirty knives and forks, a pair of cracked plates, two poley cups and chipped saucers. Ibid. 234 A cup was broken, and another, also a poley, was put in its stead. 1922Joyce Ulysses 289 Angus heifers and polly bullocks of immaculate pedigree. 1930L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. vii. 173 A new-chum had a theory that if you turned your back on a beast and stooped down, and looked at him through your legs he wouldn't charge, and how a noted poley bullock completely exploded his theory. 1954Coast to Coast 1953–54 14 Home made cartridges? There they go again! No. Poley chokes on their guns. That American idea for greater range.
B. n. A type of saddle (see quots. 1958, 1966).
1958Amer. Speech XXXIII. 167 Poley, a saddle without a pommel. 1966Baker Austral. Lang. (ed. 2) iii. 67 Another type of saddle is the poley. This is a saddle without kneepads—‘like a poley bull without horns, but generally considered to be derived from polo saddle’. 1975Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 26 Jan. 15/1 My own poley had had its day... Good second-hand saddles were not easy to come by.
▪ II. poley
obs. form of pulley.
▪ III. poley, poley-mountain
see poly1. |
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