| 单词 | mussel digger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmussel digger mussel digger n. U.S. (a) the grey whale, Eschrichtius robustus (rare); (b) a machine for digging mussel-mud. ΚΠ 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 213 It being difficult to capture them, they have a variety of names among whalemen, as..‘Muscle-digger’, ‘Hard-head’, &c. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Mussel Mussel-digger,..a machine for digging mussel-mud. 1949 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 43 Suppl. 185 Any whale known by the name of gray whale, California gray, devil fish, hard head, mussel digger [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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