| 单词 | hell box |
| 释义 | > as lemmashell box hell box n. Typography a box for holding damaged or broken type. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > box for damaged or broken type hell box1852 hell1870 hell-receptacle1876 1852 Kenosha (Wisconsin) Telegraph 14 May 2/2 It appears that the material of the office, types, cases, sheep's foot, hell box and all, has been stolen by some unprincipled scamp. 1909 ‘M. Twain’ Is Shakespeare Dead? vii. 73 If a man should..say..‘empty..the imposing stone into the hell-box’..I should..know that the writer was only a printer theoretically, not practically. 1983 Business Week 16 May 7 Every rule I ever learned to make the reader keep reading has apparently been tossed in the hell-box. 2006 Winnipeg Sun (Nexis) 1 Apr. 2 His job was to shovel metal into a ‘hell box’, which was this enormous melting pot for the recyclable lead. < as lemmas |
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