单词 | hand-turned |
释义 | > as lemmashand-turned hand-turned adj. †(a) (perhaps) dug up by hand (obsolete); (b) (of earthenware) shaped on a lathe; (c) (of a mechanism) operated by cranking or rotating by hand. ΚΠ 1846 Hull Packet & E. Riding Times 4 Dec. 1/4 The patent brick machine, for making stock bricks..out of common hand-turned Clay. 1929 M. W. Beckwith Black Roadways 27 Earthen bowls, hand turned and covered with a rude glaze, are always to be had in the Kingston market. 2002 K. Jamie Among Muslims i. 38 She hunkered on the floor, sewing a new shalwar on a hand-turned sewing machine. < as lemmas |
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