| 释义 |
ˈmoteling rare.
[f. mote n.1 + -ling.]
A little mote; something very small.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. i. Vocation 335 A cloud of Moatlings hums Above our heads. a1618― tr. Pibrac Wks. (Grosart) II. 24/1 It is a moatling hatcht of th' Unity. 1824Lamb. Lett. to Hood in E. V. Lucas Life II. 130, I wash my hands in fishets that come through the pump every morning thick as motelings. |