pradとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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prad (複数形 prads)

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, dated) A horse.
   • 1754, John Poulter, The Discoveries of John Poulter, alias Baxter, Sherborne, p. 39, [1]

     Horse Stealers, they go together always the Day before, to look over the Grounds for a good Prad or Prads […]

   • 1821, David Haggart, The Life of David Haggart, written by himself while under sentence of death, London: W. and C. Tait, p. 22, [2]

     We had fixed our eye on a horse-dealer, and had some conversation with him about the purchase of a prad; but we could not agree, and parted, on account of a deeker, who was eyeing us closely, and I observed him speak to the jockey.

   • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “chapter XXXI”, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 558204586:

     'Just send somebody out to relieve my mate, will you, young man?' said the officer; 'he's in the gig, a-minding the prad. […] '

   • 1893, Ernest Favenc, "Bunthorp's Decease" in Tales of the Austral Tropics, London: Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1894, [3]

     "Not a bad sort of a prad that brown one," he remarked; "looks a little gone in the near fore-leg."

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XIII, p. 212, [4]

     So smooth of face, so fine of eye, so much a beautiful part of his beautiful chestnut prad.

アナグラム

• Drap, adRP, drap, pard