(n.) An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
(n.) A carnivorous quadruped of the genus Meles or of an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana / Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.
(n.) A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
(v. t.) To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.
(v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
(2) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
(3) Forty-seven badgers were caught from the eight social groups.
(4) The government's decision to allow a cull of badgers, reportedly to combat bovine tuberculosis, "flies in the face of the scientific evidence" and will serve only to spread the disease, Labour claims.
(5) The planned cull had suffered a series of blows recently, including the discovery of up to twice as many badgers in the culling zones than expected, driving up the cost and complexity of the cull.
(6) Field trials found the BCG vaccine reduced the incidence of bovine TB in badgers by 73.8%.
(7) I tried hard not to think of a time hence when I could count every tree in the wood, when the badger sett would be in an open field.
(8) Rosie Woodroffe, a professor and a key member of an earlier landmark 10-year study of badger culling , said: "It would be extraordinarily unusual for natural causes to change badger populations so rapidly, and indeed no such changes have been seen [elsewhere].
(9) There was generally avoidance of pasture treated with badger urine up to 14 days old.
(10) Wild animals, particularly badgers, have been implicated as reservoirs of the infection.
(11) The killing of badgers to somehow “save” dairy and beef cows is perverse.
(12) Badgers need to be trapped before they can be vaccinated, and the process will need to be repeated annually for many years, which makes it extremely expensive to use.
(13) Sera obtained from 2 groups of badgers removed in bovine tuberculosis control operations have been examined for antibodies to 11 species of mycobacteria.
(14) There has certainly been a raft of policy announcements: on a green investment bank , subsidies for domestic renewable energy , electric vehicles , high speed rail , even badgers .
(15) The risk is that it removes relatively few badgers; then the worst case scenario is not just the loss of the risk reduction observed in the RBCT but the possibility of actually increasing the risk to local cattle herds (such as observed in reactively culled areas of the RBCT).
(16) Matters worsened when on-the-ground surveys, costing almost £1m, discovered up to twice as many badgers in the first cull areas in Gloucestershire and Somerset.
(17) After the July ruling, which was welcomed by the National Farmers Union, the British Veterinary Association and the British Cattle Veterinary Association, a spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "No one wants to cull badgers but last year bovine TB led to the slaughter of over 26,000 cattle, and to help eradicate the disease it needs to be tackled in badgers."
(18) The relative importance of the two mating periods is reflected in the seasonal pattern of bite wounding in adult male badgers; minor bite wounding in January-March was 2.3 times as frequent as in August-October, and moderate-extensive bite wounding was 3.1 times more frequent.
(19) Serological results obtained in badgers and wild boars also demonstrates the absence of direct or indirect horizontal transmission of the recombinant virus.
(20) On the ground beneath their feet lived salamanders, amphibians and plenty of mammals, including the badger-sized beast, repenomamus, which dined on dead dinosaurs.
Heckle
Definition:
(n. & v. t.) Same as Hackle.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I was at a comedy club trying to do my act, and I got heckled and I took it badly and went into a rage," Richards said.
(2) The performance was not without some good‑natured heckling, largely involving bellowed chants of "We want you to stay" from the assembled playing staff.
(3) Actually, I had betrayed the seriousness of what had happened, because my story ignored the fact that I had been genuinely frightened and in a degree of danger during the heckling.
(4) I told her how sorry I was, and that I thought she was heckling because she hated my show.
(5) Malcolm Turnbull heckled by Liberals as anger lingers over Tony Abbott's ouster Read more Villatora, who had earlier warned the NSW state council about the party increasingly resembling “a closed shop”, said the limited trials between now and 2019 were an “important step towards a fully democratic party”.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nicky Morgan heckled at NASUWT conference – video No one had consulted, it seems, the hundreds of Tory-controlled councils that regard running education as one of their big jobs.
(7) One said: “We should read the bills before we pass the bills.” There were heckles from Republicans.
(8) In Riga, a city with a majority of ethnic Russians, a small band of protesters heckled the marchers with calls such as: "Shame on you", "A disgrace" and "What is there to be proud of?"
(9) Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney was heckled repeatedly during his closing rally of the Iowa campaign, with shouts that he is ignoring the poor and is too close to Wall Street.
(10) At one point, Watson was heckled by an audience member.
(11) Seann Walsh: It's bad when someone heckles you by shouting out "Taxi!".
(12) Helena says there are reports that the mission chiefs were also heckled as they arrived, but there are no further incidents reported.
(13) The funniest heckle I’ve ever had When I was a larger man, I went onstage wearing a stripy T-shirt and someone shouted: “Horizontal stripes are a fat man no-no!” Harsh but fair.
(14) I want you to be very happy.” But the politeness very quickly faded as he interrupted, heckled, rolled his eyes and tried to throw the authority figure off her game with lies.
(15) CND stewards threw out the hecklers just as Labour party conference stewards had thrown out CND's Walter Wolfgang when he heckled Jack Straw the previous month.
(16) Republican healthcare bill limps into recess with no vote in sight Read more Amid heckling and chanting, Cassidy attempted to describe his efforts to draft new legislation and answered angry questioning about the Senate healthcare plan which did not come to a vote this week , after party leaders realised they did not have enough votes to pass it.
(17) But in Dundee’s Overgate shopping centre, where Murphy was heckled by yes supporters during his pro-union speaking tour last summer, the impact of Scottish Labour’s recent pronouncements on welfare, fracking or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership appears minimal.
(18) They call me names – some of them even heckle me at public meetings.
(19) This is my objection to the reforms being proposed – whether from the inside by threatening exit, or by exiting and heckling from the sidelines.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Confrontations with protesters in Reno were few compared with other campaign stops, leaving Trump begging for a protester to heckle.