| 单词 | daub and wattle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdaub and wattle b. wattle and daub (dab) n. interwoven twigs plastered with clay or mud, as a building material for huts, cottages, etc.; chiefly attributive. Also (rarely) daub and wattle, mud and wattle. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > wood-based materials > [noun] > material of interwoven branches > plastered with mud or clay wattled work1712 wattle and daub (dab)1808 wattle-work1860 wattled daub1866 daub and wattle1883 mud and wattle1913 1808 T. Batchelor Gen. View Agric. County of Bedford 21 The cottages and barns..are built with wood frame work, and clay plaster upon a kind of hedge work of splints, which is called wattle and dab. 1836 Ross's Hobart Town Almanack & Van Diemen's Land Ann. 66 Wattle and daub. [Instructions for using the branches of the black or the green wattle (see sense 4 below) for this kind of construction.] 1852 W. Wickenden Hunchback's Chest 311 Strong wattle and daub walls. 1855 W. H. Howitt Holly-tree Inn: Landlord in Househ. Words Extra Christmas No. 26/1 Robinson..stood at the door of a considerable erection of wattle-and-dab. 1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm ii. iii His house was a little square daub-and-wattle building. a1887 R. Jefferies Toilers of Field (1892) 183 One wall of the house..was only ‘wattle and daub’ (i.e., lath and plaster). 1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night 36 There are no houses here—nothing but acres and acres, it seems, of foul wattle-and-dab huts. 1901 Archaeol. Jrnl. (Instit.) Mar. 68 A light and simple erection of wattle-and-daub. 1913 Eng. Rev. Aug. 59 I saw the house, a mud and wattle rancho. < as lemmas |
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