| 单词 | earth-worker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth-worker a. In branch I., as earth-baking, earth-convulsing, earth-delving, earth-incinerating, earth-piercing, earth-worker, etc. See also earthquaking adj., earth-tiller n., earth-tilling n., etc. ΚΠ 1594 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis (new ed.) sig. Eiij Where earth-deluing Conies keepe. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 34 Earth-incinerating Aetnas wombe big swolne with flames. 1601 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus iii. iv. 1390 If his earth wroting snout shall gin to scorne. 1781 J. Sharp Acc. Pensilvanian Stove-grates 12/2 Boring Tools for Earth Boring. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 138 Earth-convulsing behemoth. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 75 Earth-baking heat. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 206 The broad and upturned base Of that earth-piercing altar pyramid. 1926 Missionary Rec. United Free Ch. Scotl. Apr. 168/1 The spirit of the Secession is strong among the shepherds & ‘earth-workers’ of the Scottish Border. 1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. iv. 84 An earth-boring tool was used to obtain samples of 1.1 × 103 cm3. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 10 Mar. i. 6/4 A top priority is improving ‘earth-penetrating weapons’ that could be used to destroy underground installations and hardened bunkers. < as lemmas |
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