| 单词 | jackboot-maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasjackboot-maker C2. General attributive and objective (in sense 1), as jackboot leather, jackboot heel, jackboot-maker, etc. ΚΠ 1732 J. Guthrie Ordinary of Newgate, his Acct. No. 4. 8 Edward Wentland.., born in Westminster, of honest Parents, who..put him to a Jag-boot-maker. 1876 Iron 8 Apr. 451/2 Eighteen assorted pattern spurs, including a Life Guard spur, officers' jack boot spur, and race, steeple-chase and hunting spurs. 1892 J. L. Allen John Gray in Lippincott's Monthly Mag. June 686 Mr. Horatio Turpin,..cutting with a hickory switch at a huge spur on his jack-boot heel,..was especially warm over the affair. 1979 W. Kelley Tyree Legend xl. 360 You insist on pretending that everybody's made out of jackboot leather, like you are. 2012 A. J. Jacobs Drop Dead Healthy xvi. 232 I'm not going to pay for a bunch of new swastika flags and jackboot laces. < as lemmas |
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