| 单词 | cob cottage |
| 释义 | > as lemmascob cottage attributive and in other combinations, as cob cottage, cob house, cob wall (sometimes unnecessarily hyphenated); cob-walled adj.; cob-parer n. a tool used in building cob walls. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > wall > types of mud walla1395 ground-wall1712 retaining wall1771 cob wall1790 wing-wall1791 honeycomb wall1850 toe wall1934 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [adjective] > of the nature of a wall > types of wall > having specific type of wall cob-walled1820 slab-walled1845 society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > walling equipment lathing staff1577 cob-parer1833 wall-crook1869 1790 ‘P. Pindar’ Rowland for Oliver 6 Make a fortune by a history of cobwalls, old chamber-pots, and rusty nails. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon ix. 235 However coarse and unseemly the cobwalls appear..they seldom fail to afford..considerable quantities of highly flavoured wall-fruit. 1820 C. S. Gilbert Antiq. Cornwall 936 The houses in general, are cobwalled buildings. 1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. 417 The cob-parer is made of iron. 1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn vi The main village..consisted of a narrow street of cob-houses white-washed and thatched. 1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. I. vii. 137 Homely cob walls square out the pastures. 1876 M. E. Braddon Joshua Haggard's Daughter I. v. 141 Hymns which compared the cob-walled barn to the gorgeous temple in the sacred city. 1889 Temple Bar Aug. 577 A red cob cottage. < as lemmas |
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