| 释义 |
ˈhouse-heating
1. lit. The heating of a house. Also attrib.
1887Westm. Rev. June 323 Our house-heating furnaces..are not to be commended. 1895Daily News 25 Apr. 7/2 It is applicable..to house-heating, to kitchen and baking-ovens, to steamers, locomotives, and other steam engines.
2. fig. = house-warming 2.
1819Blackw. Mag. V. 631/2 His celebrated master-piece, ‘Hogg's Househeating’. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. i. IV. 245 A grand House-heating, or First Dinner. |