| 单词 |
Aberdeen |
| 释义 |
Aberdeen|æbəˈdiːn|
The name of a city and county in Scotland.
1. Aberdeen Angus, one of a breed of polled black beef cattle, originally from Scotland but now widely distributed and exported; also Angus.
1862E. Ravenscroft (title) The Polled Herd Book containing Pedigrees of Animals of the Polled Aberdeen Angus and Galloway Breeds. 1891R. Wallace Rural Econ. Aust. & N.Z. xxxii. 413 The Aberdeen-Angus Polled cattle are slowly but surely working their way to the front in the Colonies. 1953E. Smith English Traditions 3 Some breeds of cattle..e.g. the Aberdeen Angus, [are reared] for beef.
2. Aberdeen terrier, a rough variety of Scotch terrier; also Aberdeen ellipt.
1880H. Dalziel Brit. Dogs xxiv. 362 Those selected for prizes..were not the old hard-haired Scotch terrier, but a well-known distinct variety yclept the Aberdeen terrier. 1889Ibid. (ed. 2) II. xxiv. 363 Such are the Dandie Dinmont, the Skye, and the Aberdeen Terrier, the latter now merged in the class recognised at our shows as the Scotch Terrier. 1907B. M. Croker Company's Servant xxxiii. 337 Two prim Aberdeens, and a pink-eyed bull terrier. 1922V. Woolf Jacob's Room xiii. 270 The Aberdeen terrier must be exercised.
3. A type of fishing-hook: see quot.
1893Outing (U.S.) XXII. 123/1 Of all the makes and shapes of hooks the ‘Aberdeen’, of very fine steel-wire, with long, straight shank and a broad, even bend, terminating in a short, barbed point, is the surest shape for large-mouthed trout.
4. Other attrib. uses.
1756A. Butler Lives Saints I. 50/1 The Aberdeen Breviary..was printed at Edinburgh, by Walter Chapman, in 1509. 1866Illustr. London News 14 Apr. 366/2 The columns and cornice..are of polished Aberdeen granite. 1904Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 74/2 Aberdeen Granite, a grey granite, extremely hard and durable. |
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