| 单词 | corn-cob shell |
| 释义 | > as lemmascorn-cob shell attributive and in other combinations, as corn-cob pipe, a tobacco-pipe with the bowl made of the cob of Indian corn; corn-cob shell, a shell made by removing the pith of the cob and filling the hollow with powder. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > other types of pipe calumet1717 pillow pipe1752 meerschaum1799 corn-cob pipe1832 bulldog1885 plague pipe1892 Peterson1906 shell-briar1972 1801 Spirit of Farmers' Museum 236 Jotham, get the great case bottle, Your teeth can pull its corn cob stopple. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn II. xix. 246 He stood in the group, with his corncob pipe, puffing the smoke from his bolster-lips. 1853 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 4 83 Best corn~cob crusher by horse power. 1856 Yale Lit. Mag. 21 145 He was employed in whittling a corn cob bowl into a pipe. 1888 in J. S. Farmer Americanisms (1889) 170/1 Soon after that disgrace a party of the boys prepared a lot of grenades—corn-cob shells they called them—and determined to storm head quarters. 1889 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot Broomsedge Cove iv. 53 An aroma lingered about its corn-cob stopper. 1911 Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republican 12 Jan. 1 Speaker Cannon gave Washington a shock Thursday by appearing in one of the Capitol lobbies smoking a corncob pipe. 1960 B. Keaton My Wonderful World of Slapstick iv. 72 His mother, a frail old Southern woman who smoked a corncob pipe, put me to bed. < as lemmas |
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