英和和英

名詞

grasscutter (複数形 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 (複数形 grasscutters)

1. (英国用法 India) A native employed in India to bring grass for horses.

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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