| 单词 | peat house |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspeat house peat house n. an outbuilding for storing peats. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > other organic fuels > [noun] > place to store peats peat house1338 peat cote1543 1338 in G. Kristensson Stud. Middle Eng. Topogr. Terms (1970) 81 (MED) Will. del Pethous. 1580 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 320 Within the peithous of the neddir bailye. 1841 E. Brontë Diary 30 July in Lett. Charlotte Brontë (1995) I. 263 Victoria and Adelaide..are ensconced in the peat-house..Nero..in his cage. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy 149 Betty Landsborough..set him to chop wood, and stack it in the little peat-house. 1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill ix. 293 In the long-extending, open-sided Peat House, men on ladders built..hard blocks of peats into tall stacks. < as lemmas |
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