| 单词 | earth-maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth-maker c. In branch IV., as earth-hauling, earth-maker, earth-scraper, etc. ΚΠ 1615 T. Adams Spirituall Nauigator 34 in Blacke Devill Earth-scrapers..that would dig to the Center to exhale riches. 1661 K. W. Confused Characters 99 This miserable earth-grubber doth..acquire this trash with vexation. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 182 Potters and Earth-makers, that is to say, People that tamper'd the Earth for the China Ware. 1856 New Eng. Farmer Sept. 402/2 Be a Farmer, not a mere earth scraper. 1875 R. Hill & F. Hill What we saw in Austral. xxiii. 380 We examined..models of..implements for quartz-crushing and earth-washing. 1901 R. Kipling Kim iv. 88 A..blue-petticoated clan of earth-carriers, hurrying north on news of a job. 1953 J. Huxley Evol. in Action iii. 74 The earth-swallowers, earthworms for example. 2000 R. H. Clough et al. Constr. Project Managem. (ed. 4) viii. 169 The temptation to overload equipment in an effort to get more production is especially true with earth-hauling units. < as lemmas |
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