| 单词 | cockle woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmascockle woman cockle woman n. now chiefly historical a woman who gathers or harvests cockles to eat or sell; cf. cockle wife n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for other shellfish mussel man1459 cockler1769 cockle picker1801 cockle woman1827 mussel-gatherer1859 cockle wife1877 scalloper1887 clammer1888 winkler1889 quahogger1910 1827 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 14 Nov. 2/4 If any of the cockle women had complaint to make the Court would hear them. 1949 D. Thomas Let. in Sel. Lett. (1966) 325 You climb the stones to see..the cocklewomen webfoot. a1993 J. James et al. Fourth Gwenevere (2014) xii. 257 Constant can no more be a Great Duke than I can be a cockle-woman. < as lemmas |
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