单词 | oakum-picker |
释义 | > as lemmasoakum-picker oakum-picker n. ΚΠ 1855 H. Melville Benito Cereno in Putnam's Monthly Mag. Oct. 362/1 The ship's forecastle bell, smote by one of the grizzled oakum-pickers, proclaimed ten o'clock through the leaden calm. 1865 G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming III. viii. 110 Her hair's cut off like an oakum-picker's. 2001 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Va.) (Nexis) 4 Feb. a1 Charles Dickens wrote about the dreadful conditions of oakum pickers. < as lemmas |
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