| 单词 | cheese tub |
| 释义 | > as lemmascheese tub cheese tub n. (a) a large cylindrical tub for holding the milk used in cheese-making (now historical); †(b) U.S. a ship with one or more cylindrical gun turrets (likened in shape to cheese tubs); = monitor n. 4b; cf. cheese box n. (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for cheese cheese tub1513 cheese box1855 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese tub, vat, or mould cheese vatOE cheese tub1513 cheese moat1574 moat1577 cheese mould1588 chesford1596 vat1669 cheese hoop1678 chessel1721 cheesebail1730 thrusting-tub1846 hoop1857 1513 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 40 j chesetubbe. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 335/1 A Cheese Ladder..serveth to lay over the Cheese Tub for the Cheese Fat to rest upon, while the Dairy Woman presseth the Whay out of the Cruds. 1794 T. Wedge Gen. View Agric. Chester 50 This whey is..returned into the cheese-tub again. 1862 Charleston (S. Carolina) Daily Courier 18 Mar. The great cheese tub, Erricson, of Yankee noteriety [sic], had passed Newport's News..on her way up James river. 1867 J. T. Headley Farragut & Naval Commanders 519 Worden in his ‘cheese-tub’, as the rebels called her, was crowding all steam to overtake his powerful adversary. 1980 Pennsylvania Hist. 47 202 One dairy had among its utensils..a twenty-five gallon cheese tub with cover and stand. < as lemmas |
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