单词 | army blanket |
释义 | > as lemmasarmy blanket d. Designating equipment or installations intended for use by the army, as army ambulance, army base, army blanket, army depot, army lorry, etc. ΚΠ 1803 J. Orrok Lett. (1927) 33 Orders to proceed to the Isle of Wight where I was a few days at the Headquarters of the Army Depot. 1865 H. James Story of Year in Compl. Tales (1962) I. 91 She took..an old army blanket. She wrapped it round her. 1895 Househ. News (Philadelphia) Nov. 502 Margaret, Dorothy, and their mamma, with Sullivan, the ‘striker’, for driver, rode in a big army ambulance, drawn by two real army mules. 1919 Daily Mail 12 June 4/4 We grasped at the relieving ‘lorribus’ (the converted Army lorry doing the duty as an emergency omnibus). 1935 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Apr. 4/1 900 applicants were put through medical examinations and transported to army camps. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 741/1 From the Army base at Vieux Fort I went one morning to see the sulphur pits and fumaroles of Soufrière. 1973 Nature 5 Oct. 231/1 The stockpiles of lethal nerve gases that are now stored in army depots throughout the United States. 1993 D. Robinson Good Clean Fight (BNC) 374 A truck howled past, towing a small piece of artillery. An army ambulance followed. 2007 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 19 Apr. (Features section) 19 The old Aussie saddle blanket was usually an old grey army blanket doubled over. < as lemmas |
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