单词 | emmet-butt |
释义 | > as lemmasemmet-butt emmet-butt n. an anthill (see butt n.13). ΚΠ 1698 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 20 49 Emett Butts. 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. 232 While the ragged colts did crop The nibbled grass, I used to hop The emmet buts vrom top to top. 1892 T. Compton Mendip Valley xi. 162 The common Green Woodpecker..frequents our elms and orchards, and is often seen on the ground searching among the ‘emmet-butts’. 1981 J. Hadfield New Shell Guide to Eng. (ed. 2) 34 In Dorset they talk about an anthill as an emmet-butt. < as lemmas |
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