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单词 mud and log
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mud and log
b. Building. Used in combinations to denote methods of wall construction. mud and stud n. English regional (Lincolnshire) posts and laths filled in with mud, as a building material for the walls of cottages, etc. (also called stud and mud). Similarly mud and log, mud and reed, mud and wattle, etc. Frequently attributive. Cf wattle and daub at daub n. 1a.
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1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 389 The rectory house was an old fashioned dwelling, with high gables and walls of mud and stud.
1843 F. Marryat Narr. Trav. M. Violet III. i. 1 The miserable twelve-feet-square mud-and-log cabins.
1853 L. Giddings Sketches Campaign N. Mexico 34 On the right bank at that place, is a small collection of mud and reed huts, occupied by Mexican fishermen and herdsmen.
1893 Littell's Living Age 28 Oct. 244 The hive-shaped mud and wattle huts of a colony of fellaheen established here [i.e. in Crete] by Mehemet Ali.
1900 Daily News 18 May 6/2 The mud and reed towns of the negro.
1913 Eng. Rev. Aug. 59 I saw the house, a mud and wattle rancho.
1940 Sci. Monthly Oct. 349/1 The very occasional, windowless, mud-and-log huts..emphasized the primeval silence of these wind-swept mountain tops.
1961 Mod. Lang. Notes 76 775 The frail mud and reed walls of the fishermen's huts.
1975 National Geographic Apr. 500 (caption) Tick-tack-toe of a new apartment complex rises amid mud-and-wattle houses in Zanzibar town.
1994 Guardian 25 June (Weekend Suppl.) 63/3 There are numerous examples of Lincolnshire mud and stud.
1998 E. Danticat Farming of Bones xxii. 130 A mud-and-wattle cooking hut near a wooden fence where the compound met an open dirt road.
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