| 单词 | milk basket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk basket milk basket n. South African (now historical) a basket made of closely woven reeds or rushes, used to transport or store milk. ΚΠ 1798 A. L. Barnard Jrnl. 23 May in Lives of Lindsays (1849) III. 464 A milk-basket which I looked at with a covetous eye, in which the Caffres carry their milk—which they weave so close with certain rushes that, after once using, the milk cannot get through. 1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. II. 507 The manner in which it is wove together is the same as that which is practiced by the Caffres Proper, in the making of their milk-baskets. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture xviii. 393 The dogs and cockroaches divide between them the duty of cleaning out the milk-baskets. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 318 Milk basket, baskets made by the natives from a strong, reedy grass are used to hold milk. < as lemmas |
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