| 单词 | paring bee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasparing bee paring bee n. North American (now rare) a social gathering at which apples are peeled for drying. ΚΠ 1830 J. Pickering Emigration 72 A paring ‘bee’, or ‘be’, [is] an assemblage of neighbours invited to one house, to prepare apples for drying. 1888 J. Q. Bittinger Hist. Haverhill (New Hampsh.) 359 Quite an incident was the paring~bee in bringing young folks together. The..young men mounted the paring machines and peeled the apples, whilst the..young ladies quartered and cored them. 1933 E. C. Guillet Early Life Upper Canada 195 A paring bee produced large numbers of strings of dried apples, and these were suspended from the ceiling of kitchen or attic. < as lemmas |
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