| 单词 | machila man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmachila man General attributive, objective, instrumental, etc., as machila-bearer, machila-carrier, machila man nouns. ΚΠ 1848 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 19 Aug. 121 In all the Portuguese possessions on the coast, are numbers of..free blacks, who hire themselves out as woodcutters, machila-bearers, or labourers. 1876 R. Burton Two Trips Gorilla-land II. ii. 30 The ‘munengana’, or machila-man, is active in offering his light cane palanquin. 1898 Brit. Central Afr. Gaz. 30 Apr. 1/1 Captain Chichester was shortly afterwards surrounded... The machila men and carriers at once ran away. 1900 E. S. Grogan & A. H. Sharp From Cape to Cairo vi. 57 [He] utilized the bandsmen when off duty as machila-carriers. 1906 R. C. F. Maugham Portuguese E. Afr. 14 Machilla-travelling on the Frontier. 1930 Jrnl. Royal Army Med. Corps 54 339 You can tell a machila-man at once by the callosities on his shoulders. 1998 V. Rangel-Ribeiro Tivolem xiv. 89 The sharply articulated iss-iss, iss-iss with which the machila-bearers..synchronized the rhythm of their breathing and of their bare feet. < as lemmas |
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