单词 | creeing-trough |
释义 | > as lemmascreeing-trough 3. transitive. To pound or crush into a soft mass. Hence creeing-trough, the ‘knocking-trough’ formerly used for pounding grain. ΚΠ 1822 T. Bewick Mem. (1862) 13 To ‘cree’ them with a wooden ‘mell’, in a stone trough, till the tops of the whins were beaten to the consistency of soft, wet grass. 1852 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 13 ii. 256 The corn was crushed in the mill, or in the creeing-trough. 1886 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 360 A fine creeing-trough. < as lemmas |
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