| 单词 | inch-allotment |
| 释义 | > as lemmasinch-allotment C1. attributive and in other combinations, as inch-allotment, inch-diet; inch-deep, inch-high, inch-long, inch-thick, inch-wide adjs. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 187 Gone already, Ynch-thick, knee-deepe. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. i. 5 An exquisite thin diet (called of Ioubertus..the inch-diet, wherein we eat by drams, and drink by spoonfuls). 1682 T. Creech tr. Lucretius De natura rerum iv. 115 Little puddles..Tho scarce Inch deep. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 24 Life's little Stage is a small Eminence, Inch-high the Grave above. 1873 Young Englishwoman Apr. 194/2 Inch-wide lace. 1876 J. R. Lowell Spenser in Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 189 Futile gossip and inch-long politics. 1884 R. Browning Bean-stripe in Ferishtah's Fancies 218 Aphis that I am, How leave my inch-allotment? 1899 Westm. Gaz. 11 May 4/2 Strings..of inch-wide black velvet. 1950 W. de la Mare Inward Compan. 89 From inch-wide eyes I scan their..flames. 1964 C. Dent Quantity Surv. by Computer iii. 31 The new 1-inch-wide eight-channel paper tape now in use on some computers. < as lemmas |
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