| 单词 | dollylegs |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdolly-legs dolly-legs n. see 4a. ΚΠ 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Dolly-legs, an implement with five or six legs for washing. dolly-legs a. dialect. A wooden appliance with two arms, and legs or feet, used to stir and twirl clothes in the wash-tub, called a dolly-tub; also called dolly-legs or dolly-stick, peggy, maiden. The name is sometimes less correctly given to the tub, and extended to mechanical contrivances fulfilling the same purpose; also to an apparatus for agitating and washing ore in a vessel; and to a beetle for linen, beating hemp, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > stick to stir washing maiden1752 dolly1793 doll1841 peggy1860 dolly peg1879 maid1882 poting stick1892 potstick1922 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 39. 308 The Dumb Dolly, or a machine for washing, is recommended. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Dolly..a washing tub. a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 14 Dolly, a beetle used in ‘bunching hemp’, as a punishment, in bridewell. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Dolly, in mining parlance a perforated board, placed over a tub containing ore to be washed, and which being worked by a winch-handle, gives a circular motion to the ore. 1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 609 Dolly, an instrument used by diggers for dividing and mixing the tough clay or cement with water in the puddling-tub. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness (at cited word) Dolly-tub, a barrel-shaped machine for washing clothes which are stirred about with a pronged-instrument, called a dolly-stick. 1884 Athenæum 26 Apr. 533/1 One sort of dolly is a barrel-formed tub, in which a beater is worked by hand up and down. 1892 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Dolly, a clothes washing stick, made with feet, but otherwise like a poss-stick. 1894 Superfl. Woman (ed. 4) I. 159 [The] dolly-tub stood with some of the wet linen hanging on the side. < as lemmas |
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