| 释义 |
squeege, v.|skwiːdʒ|
Also 8–9 squeedge.
[Strengthened form of squeeze v.]
1. intr. To press; to make one's way by pressure.
1782H. Cowley Which is the Man? v. ii, Such clattering, and squeedging down the gangway staircase. 1852C. W. Hoskyns Talpa xxi, Every time I see it [a plough], on stiff land, a-squeeging and pressing, and kneading its way along.
2. trans. To compress; to squeeze.
1787in Grose Prov. Gloss. 1848Dickens Dombey lii, Can't you be fond of a cove without squeedging and throttling of him! 1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. (1861) II. 530, I went, and I was nearly squeeged to death. |