Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beast of burden; also, a beast in general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A beast; especially, a beast of burden.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
beast ; especially, abeast of burden .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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And he added: Thereto shalt thou eat herbs of the earth, as who saith thou shalt be like a beast or jument.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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Voltaire writes "Jumarre" after German fashion and Littré derives it from jument + art (finale péjorative), or the Languedoc
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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"Le jument est beau" was a solecism that could not longer be tolerated.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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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 John Davenport 1833
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Chez eux, un grand n'a point honte de monter une jument que son poulain suit par derrière.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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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 2003
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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 2003
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"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!
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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"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!
Sketches New and Old, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872
qms commented on the word jument
Rich glory's the dream of each student
But the world will insist we be prudent.
When timidity beggars us
We don’t soar like Pegasus
But trudge with head down like a jument.
September 22, 2014
qms commented on the word jument
jument means mare in French and, judging from the usage examples in Wordnik and general search engine evidence, is more often employed to that purpose in French than to any purpose at all in English. La Jument is also the name of a famous lighthouse off Ushant, Brittany.
September 22, 2014