| 单词 | pipe stave |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspipe stave pipe stave n. now historical each of the staves which are hooped together to make a cask. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > strip of wood > for making casks or vessels stavea1398 staff1531 barrel stave1549 hogshead stavec1580 pipe stavec1580 lag1659 laggin1825 noggin-stave1855 staver1891 c1580 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 177 The cuppillis sall be of the thiknes that euerye thre cuppillis sall tak the lenth of a burdeous [printed windeous] pipe staf. 1666 London Gaz. No. 45/1 Four Vessels laden with Pipe~staves from Hamburgh, for the use of the Navy. 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) VII. 438 Ireland, which afforded an advantageous mart for corn, flax, and pipe-staves, has been shut against them [sc. colonists] by an act of parliament. 1842 N. Hawthorne Village Uncle 106 It was a small collection of dwellings that seemed to have..come ashore among the pipe staves and other lumber, which had been washed from the deck of an eastern schooner. 1999 William & Mary Q. 56 140 Farmers in such areas turned to ‘cropping’ the trees, first for pipe staves and maple syrup, later by burning them to make potash and charcoal. < as lemmas |
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