| 单词 | oak chair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoak chair b. With the sense ‘made of or consisting of oak wood; decorated with or resembling oak wood’, as oak chair, oak floor, oak table, etc. ΚΠ 1653 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1887) V. 151 [Indictment for unjustly taking away an] oak-stoop. 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 66 Oake Roofing raysing pieces eight Inches one way. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry i. i. 8 Oak-stakes are reckon'd the best, and Black-thorn and Sallow next. 1717 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1890) VIII. 171 One oak chest, one arm chair with some other odd householdments. 1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire I. viii. 369 For polishing..oak floors and furniture. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. ix. 198 He..sate himself down on the oak table and whistled a strathspey. 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 93 The chief characteristic of the interior was the oak-panelling. 1900 Daily Mail 31 Oct. Worm-eaters..assist the makers of spurious oak furniture to deceive the public by drilling worm holes into the wood so as to give it an ancient appearance. 1918 ‘R. West’ Return of Soldier 30 She laid her arms against the oak mantelpiece and cooled her face against her arms. 1987 B. Duffy World as I found It (1990) 91 High Table, that oak trencher dark with the grease and drippings of forebears who for some three hundred years had chopped and slopped, sawed and spooned. < as lemmas |
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