| 释义 |
▪ I. guss local.|gʌs|
(See quots.)
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-m., Guss (Bristol Coal-field), a short piece of rope by which a boy draws a tram or sled in a pit. 1928Daily Tel. 21 Aug. 13/2 A gentleman stated that he had seen in a newspaper an illustration of a ‘guss’, taken from a book dated 1842. 1928Times 4 Oct. 11/4 The guss is a girdle fitted around the waist of boys who pull coal in ‘putts’ or sledges in the Somerset mines.
▪ II. guss
obs. Sc. form of goose. |