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单词 galloway
释义

galloway

See also: Galloway

English

Etymology

From Galloway, Scotland, where they were bred.

Noun

galloway (plural galloways)

  1. A kind of small horse originally bred in Galloway, Scotland.
    • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, [], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, OCLC 926209975, page 164:
      but if you have no mercy upon them, yet ſpare your ſelfe, leſt you bejade the good Galloway, your owne opiniaſter Wit,
    • 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview 2001, p. 173:
      ‘Don't you remember a famous trotting galloway I had, two years ago, that I bought at Tattersall's, that would go fifteen miles within the hour?’

Synonyms

  • garran, garron
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