英语词汇“cockle-strewer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cockle-strewer n. historical (also with capital initial(s)) (the title of) a person responsible for keeping the Mall in St James's Park, London, spread with a surface of powdered cockleshells, enabling the ball to be hit further in games of pall-mall played there (also more fully King's cockle-strewer); (later also more generally) any person employed to keep a path, walkway, etc., surfaced with cockleshells.In quot. 1663 Pepys describes the surfacing of the Mall with powdered cockleshells but does not use cockle-strewer to refer to the person responsible for this. His account implies that it was done for the purpose of providing a fast surface for games of pall-mall, but some later quots. suggest that it may originally have been for reasons of garden design.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > polo > [noun] > other people

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1663 S. Pepys Diary 15 May (1971) IV. 135 The keeper of the Pell Mell..told me of what the earth is mixed that doth floor the Mall, and that over all there is Cockle-shells powdered and spread, to keep it fast.]

1785 Archaeologia 7 122 Charles the Second..also covered the central walk [of St. James's Park] with cockle shells, and instituted the office of cockle strewer.

1847 J. H. Jesse Lit. & Hist. Memorials of London I. 188 The person who had care of the [pall mall] ground was called the King's ‘Cockle Strewer’.

1953 G. Taylor Old London Gardens ii. 33 This was a fashion of the day that also prevailed in St. James's Park, where a ‘Cockle-strewer’ was appointed to look after the shell walks.

1996 Country Life 7 Nov. 92/1 The broad walks were kept freshly surfaced with cockle-shells, copying those in St James's Park, by a ‘cockle-strewer’ employed for the purpose.

单词	cockle-strewer
释义	> as lemmas cockle-strewer cockle-strewer n. historical (also with capital initial(s)) (the title of) a person responsible for keeping the Mall in St James's Park, London, spread with a surface of powdered cockleshells, enabling the ball to be hit further in games of pall-mall played there (also more fully King's cockle-strewer); (later also more generally) any person employed to keep a path, walkway, etc., surfaced with cockleshells.In quot. 1663 Pepys describes the surfacing of the Mall with powdered cockleshells but does not use cockle-strewer to refer to the person responsible for this. His account implies that it was done for the purpose of providing a fast surface for games of pall-mall, but some later quots. suggest that it may originally have been for reasons of garden design. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > equestrian sports except racing > polo > [noun] > other people cockle-strewer1785 1663 S. Pepys Diary 15 May (1971) IV. 135 The keeper of the Pell Mell..told me of what the earth is mixed that doth floor the Mall, and that over all there is Cockle-shells powdered and spread, to keep it fast.] 1785 Archaeologia 7 122 Charles the Second..also covered the central walk [of St. James's Park] with cockle shells, and instituted the office of cockle strewer. 1847 J. H. Jesse Lit. & Hist. Memorials of London I. 188 The person who had care of the [pall mall] ground was called the King's ‘Cockle Strewer’. 1953 G. Taylor Old London Gardens ii. 33 This was a fashion of the day that also prevailed in St. James's Park, where a ‘Cockle-strewer’ was appointed to look after the shell walks. 1996 Country Life 7 Nov. 92/1 The broad walks were kept freshly surfaced with cockle-shells, copying those in St James's Park, by a ‘cockle-strewer’ employed for the purpose. extracted from cocklen.² < as lemmas
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