单词 | changkol |
释义 | changkoln. Singapore English and Malaysian English. A hand tool for digging, shaped like a hoe with the blade at an acute angle to the handle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > digging tool pikeeOE digger1686 mamoty1782 ko1843 changkol1848 yam-stick1863 digging-stick1865 1848 L. Wray Pract. Sugar Planter 146 Then the chankol (hoe) is had recourse to, and the land is dug in large clumps. 1854 Singapore Free Press 20 Jan. 1/3 Cost of Changkols, Parangs & Crowbars..for the Road Dept. 1925 C. Wells Six Years in Malay Jungle (1988) xi. 146 The earthwork was done by Chinese coolies, working with a changkol, or kind of hoe, and two round baskets. 1972 G. P. Seng If We Dream Too Long ix. 71 They stopped working, leaning on their long changkol sticks. 1993 Jrnl. Southeast Asian Stud. 24 229 The discovery of the kettledrum was made..when a woman digging in a field..struck the tympanum with her changkul. 2013 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 2 Sept. Using shovels and changkols.., they came together to restore the grass patches in Lower Peirce Park. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1848 |
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