| 单词 | gamble stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgamble stick 2. More fully gamble stick. = gambrel n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat cambrelc1450 gambrel1547 butcher's hook1596 flesh-hook1596 cambren1656 shamble-hook1688 stage1715 meathook1771 progger1818 gamble1831 gallows1866 gammon1874 1831 N.-Y. Mirror 20 Apr. 339/1 He has left half the bristle on, and it hung all lopsided for the want of a gamble. 1876 Surrey Gloss. Gamble-stick, the crooked piece of wood used to hang up a pig or other slaughtered animal. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Gamel, the piece of wood or iron used by butchers for extending or hanging a carcase. 1907 Hunter-Trader-Trapper Apr. 31/1 I tie binder twine to the middle of the gamble stick and hang over a limb. 1966 Weekly News (Auckland) 26 Jan. 39 My father already had the gallows ready, complete with ropes, pulleys and a ‘gamble’. 2004 R. Peck Teacher's Funeral xiv. 159 We hoisted the carcass up on the tripod and fixed the hind legs with the gamble stick. < as lemmas |
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