单词 | gum-spear |
释义 | > as lemmasgum-spear gum-spear n. New Zealand a spear used in probing soil for kauri gum. ΚΠ 1873 J. E. Tinne Wonderland of Antipodes 54 I saw them at work with their gum-spears. 1888 P. W. Barlow Kaipara xix. 147 A gum-digger's outfit..consists of a spade, a gum-spear and a piece of sacking... The gum-spear is a four-sided rod of steel, about four feet long, and pointed at one end. 1906 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 478 A green hand of a gummy, that hadn't quite got the trick of it yet, went poking around that very cabbage-tree with his gum-spear. < as lemmas |
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