单词 | chaff house |
释义 | > as lemmaschaff house C1. General use as a modifier (chiefly in sense 1), as in chaff bag, chaff cart, chaff house, etc. ΚΠ 1305 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 41 Chafcote. a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 670/25 Hoc palare, chafhouse. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 68 Chaffenette, to take byrdys, reciaculum. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Pain de bale, chaffe bread..the coursest kind of bread. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 323 Since the house of Jacob is now as a little corne, left in a chaffe-heape. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV xxxii, in Poems (1878) IV. 9 The Birds come in To his Chaffe-baite. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 99 Along the opposite side of the yard are the chaff-room, various domestic offices, etc. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 213 Salt meat and new rum; pease-pudding and chaff-biscuits. 1901 Jrnl. Agric. & Industry (S. Austral.) Mar. 675 Steel forks..for filling chaff carts. 1996 Inside Pentagon 25 Apr. 10/1 The wing-mounted BOL chaff dispenser would be housed in a standard missile launcher. 2014 Chronicle (Toowoomba, Queensland) (Nexis) 27 Sept. 1 I gathered the hay and placed it in a chaff bag. < as lemmas |
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