| 单词 | hominy block |
| 释义 | > as lemmashominy block hominy block n. now historical a block of wood with a bowl-shaped hollow used as a mortar in which to pound hominy. ΚΠ 1824 J. E. Seaver Narr. Life Mrs. Mary Jemison iv. 47 As our cooking and eating utensils consisted of a hommany block and pestle, a small kettle, a knife or two, and a few vessels of bark or wood, it required but little time to keep them in order for use. 1981 N. P. Hardeman Shucks, Shocks & Hominy Blocks xi. 126 The most..widely employed home grain grinder throughout the timbered regions of Anglo-America's corn country was the hominy block. < as lemmas |
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