| 单词 | diggingstick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdigging-stick digging-stick n. digging-stick digging-stick n. a primitive digging implement consisting of a pointed stick, sometimes weighted by a stone. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > digging tool pikeeOE digger1686 mamoty1782 ko1843 changkol1848 yam-stick1863 digging-stick1865 1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xi. 358 The digging-sticks are made of a young mangrove tree. 1947 I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xii. 82 Women..carrying their food baskets and digging sticks. 1959 N. B. Tindale & H. A. Lindsay Rangatira ii. 199 The hoe and digging-stick method of cultivating the soil [by the Maoris]. 1960 K. M. Kenyon Archaeol. in Holy Land ii. 49 Cultivation of the ground was probably carried out by digging-sticks, pointed sticks weighted by stones, of which the evidence survives in the form of heavy stones pierced by a hole. < as lemmas |
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