| 单词 | lemon-squeezer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslemon-squeezer lemon-squeezer n. (a) an instrument for expressing the juice from a lemon; also figurative; (b) Australian and New Zealand colloquial, a hat with a peaked crown and broad flat brim worn by New Zealand troops. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts nutcracker1481 nut-crack1570 nutcrackers1600 crackera1640 crack-nut1656 orange-strainer1688 apple scoop1696 orange-peel cutter1757 apple corer1778 lemon-squeezer1781 corer1789 orange squeezer1815 seeder1865 sweat-box1870 reamer1894 stemmer1898 juicer1938 zester1963 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > with a brim > broad-brimmed > other petasus1577 bongrace1585 sombrero1770 parachute1786 Pamela hat1802 Gainsborough1878 bloomer1883 cartwheel1884 picture hat1887 cowgirl hat1897 Stetsonc1900 shtreimel1902 Merry Widow1908 ten-gallon hat1928 lemon-squeezer1953 Smokey Bear1969 Akubra1973 1781 Salem Gaz. 3 July Isaac Greenwood..makes Flutes..Back-Gammon Boxes Men and Dies, Chess-Men, Billiard-Balls, Maces, Lemon Squeezers. 1856 ‘K. R. Ockside’ & ‘Q. K. P. Doesticks’ Hist. & Rec. Elephant Club 118 One..had been hit over the head with the lemon-squeezer. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lemon-squeezer. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110 Lemon Squeezers. 1887 Cent. Mag. Aug. 489/1 The ‘Chunkers’ were frequently of the ‘lemon-squeezer’ pattern. 1949 National Geographic Mag. Aug. 235 Knap~sack's a Nuisance in the ‘Lemon Squeezer’ [sc. a narrow defile]. 1953 S. J. Baker Austral. Speaks vii. 177 A few other words of wartime vintage..lemon squeezer, the peaked hat worn by New Zealand troops (apparently originated by the troops themselves). 1957 T. S. Eliot On Poetry & Poets 113 It might be called the lemon-squeezer school of criticism. 1959 B. Kops Hamlet of Stepney Green i. 10 Julius Caesar, such a silly geezer, caught his head in a lemon squeezer. 1964 N.Z. News 24 Nov. 2/1 The ‘lemon squeezer’ was no longer suitable headgear for ceremonial rifle exercises and would never be worn by the New Zealand Army again, said the Chief of General Staff. < as lemmas |
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