英和和英

名詞

grasscutter (plural grasscutters)

1. The cane rat.
2. (baseball, cricket) Synonym of worm burner (“a hard-hit ground ball”).

語源 2

Perhaps a corruption of Hindi घासखाटा (ghāskhāṭā, literally “cutter of grass”) or Hindi घासखोदा (ghāskhodā, literally “digger of grass”). From घास (ghās, “grass”) and काटना (kāṭnā, “to cut”) or खोदना (khodnā, “to dig”)

名詞

grasscutter (plural grasscutters)

1. (British India) A native employed in India to bring grass for horses.

   Synonym: grasscut

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “grasscutter”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

アナグラム

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