单词 | hog's bristle |
释义 | > as lemmashog's bristle hog's bristle n. (also hog bristle) each of the stiff hairs which grow on the back of a hog; such hairs considered collectively, esp. as a material for making brushes. ΚΠ 1560 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 2nd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont 14 Take a Pensill of Hogges bristels, and marke your white skinne with spottes. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 74 The Lye Brush is made of Hogs-Bristles fastned into a Board with Brass-Wyer. 1762 tr. J. Astruc Treat. Dis. Women II. 240 The opening of the tubes into the uterus is so exactly closed, as not to be capable of admitting a hog's bristle to be introduced into it. 1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 9 Mar. 266/1 He assumed the character of a..Russian peasant, employed by merchants to buy hogs' bristles. 1979 C. Hayes Compl. Guide Painting, Drawing Techniques ii. 31 (caption) Each oil brush contains a certain weight of hog bristle. 1994 Sunday Times (Nexis) 24 Apr. We are not talking mimsy watercolours or squirrel-hair brushes either. We are talking palette knife and hog's bristle, bold swags of colour laid on thick. < as lemmas |
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