| 单词 | wood-hen |
| 释义 | ˈwood-hen
[f. wood n.1 + hen n.]
1. A female woodcock. Now rare.
Formerly, like the woodcock, often rendered as a tenant's due.
1281–2Yorkshire Inquis. (Yorks. Rec. Soc. 1892) I. 248 [One fowl at Christmas, called] le Wodehen. 1343in Blount Fragm. Antiq. (1815) 358 Reddendo..et unam Wed⁓henne. 1371Close Roll m. 4 dorso, Tercia pars gallinarum illarum que erunt leuate infra dominium de Groby que vocantur le Wodehennes. c1520Dial. Creatures Moralised lxxi. A A iij, Ornix the wodehenne espyed the eggis of a Pecocke. 1612Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 280/2 Cum silvarum gallinis lie wode-hennis. 1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Clouds iv. iv, I will not pay one groat to anyone, Who's ass enough to misname woodhens ‘woodcocks’. 1901Rhys Celtic Folklore i. 55 The wife then flew away like a wood⁓hen..into the lake.
2. Any flightless rail of the genus Ocydromus, of New Zealand and other Pacific islands: = weka.
1773Cook Voy. South Pole i. iv. (1777) I. 73 In the bottom of this arm or cove [of Dusky Bay] we found many ducks, wood hens, and other wild fowl. 1845,1873[see weka]. |
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