| 单词 | office stool |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoffice stool office stool n. ΚΠ 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers liv. 591 Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, was balancing himself on two legs of an office stool. 1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island i. 13 He seats himself on the office stool, and tilts it back. 1989 A. Rush Adam's Paradise (BNC) 116 Ruth occupied herself with getting settled on the office stool. office stool b. A high seat of this kind for convenience of writing at a high desk; more fully office stool. Hence, a situation as clerk in an office. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > office or clerical work office worka1678 desk1796 stool1836 desk-work1864 pencil-pushing1883 pen-pushing1906 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > stool > [noun] > high high stool1576 stool1836 stand-rest1877 1836 C. Dickens Let. ?27 July (1965) I. 157 If you write me word that you will give him a stool, he shall sit himself upon it forthwith. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers liv. 591 Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, was balancing himself on two legs of an office stool. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Audley Court in Poems (new ed.) II. 44 Oh! who would cast and balance at a desk, Perch'd like a crow upon a three-legg'd stool? 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xx. 193 Mr. Guppy suspects everybody who enters on the occupation of a stool in Kenge and Carboy's office, of entertaining..sinister designs upon him. < as lemmas |
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