| 单词 | alum-steeped | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasalum-steeped  b.   Forming adjectives, as  alum-bearing,  alum-soaked,  alum-steeped, etc. ΚΠ 1837    S. Smith Let. in  Wks. 		(1859)	 II. 277/1  				Let him drive his alum-steeped loaves a little further. 1847    Quarterly Jrnl. 3 June 36  				In large tracts of Sweden they [sc. the Lower Silurian rocks]are more expanded,..and with the same alum-bearing schists as in Norway. 1876    Sat. Rev. 23 Dec. 781/2  				He could see that the alum-soaked winding-sheet still enfolded the body. 1922    Reclam. Rec. Jan. 4/0  				There are numerous deposits of alum and alum-bearing rocks and shales in the western United States. 1996    C. Quigley Corpse iii. 53  				American colonists restrained putrefaction by wrapping the body in an alum-soaked cloth. < as lemmas  | 
	
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