单词 | high stool |
释义 | > as lemmashigh stool high stool n. a tall stool.Formerly typically used by people doing clerical work. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > high high stool1576 stool1836 stand-rest1877 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health iv. f. 215v The truncheon or small blocke of woode, set on a high stoole, ye apter to beare the Bucket, equall to the heade, and nose of the instrument placed. 1658 G. Atwell Faithfull Surveyour iii. 18 I'le carry nothing but an high stool a field, and with two sticks a cross I'le stand upon that in the midst of the field, and take the distances to every angle, and I'le measure three acres to your one. 1787 G. Colman Inkle & Yarico i. 16 What wou'd I give now, to be perch'd upon a high stool, with our brown desk, squeez'd into the pit of my stomach—scribbling away on an old parchment! 1825 H. Wilson Mem. III. 76 The Duchess of Beaufort..appears never so happy nor so comfortable as when he is perched upon a high stool by her side. 1892 C. M. Yonge That Stick I. xiii. 139 Whatever promise there may have been..must have been nipped upon the top of a high stool. 1935 G. Greene Eng. made Me i. 1 For half an hour she had sat on the same high stool, half turned from the counter. 2008 Time Out N.Y. 10 July 17/1 We settle onto high stools at Reiner's cozy Spanish ‘wind-down spot’, the candlelit Bar Jamón. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。