Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A beast of burden; also, a beast in general.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A beast; especially, a beast of burden.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A beast; especially, a beast of burden.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And when they came to Pampelona his wife died, and his host took from him all his money and his jument, upon which his children were borne.”
“And he added: Thereto shalt thou eat herbs of the earth, as who saith thou shalt be like a beast or jument.”
“Voltaire writes "Jumarre" after German fashion and Littré derives it from jument + art (finale péjorative), or the Languedoc”
“Le jument est beau" was a solecism that could not longer be tolerated.”
“On lui présente une jument comme pour la saillir, et cependant on le retient de façon à bien irriter ses idées.”
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
“Chez eux, un grand n'a point honte de monter une jument que son poulain suit par derrière.”
“Chez eux, un grand n’a point honte de monter une jument que son poulain suit par derri鑢e.”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Comme ils avoient besoin, pour les tournois et les combats, de chevaux tr鑣-forts, ils ne se servoient que de chevaux entiers, et se seroient crus d阺honor閟 de monter une jument.]”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“Ce Smiley avait une jument que les gars appelaient le bidet du quart d'heure, mais seulement pour plaisanter, vous comprenez, parse que, bien entendu, elle etait plus vite que ca!”
“[334] "L'année 1670, le Roi envoya pareillement un étalon et douze juments, et les fit distribuer aux gentilshommes du pays, les plus zélés pour la culture des terres: une jument à M. Talon, deux juments à M. de Chambly avec un étalon, une à M. de Sorel, une à M. de Contrecoeur, une à M. de Saint -”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jument’.
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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Pour utilizer en poesie
Words to be used in my poems.
psithurism, susurration, sea-reach, jument, still-hunter, falcate, monarda, palladium, senescence
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