单词 | poss-stick |
释义 | > as lemmasposs-stick b. The beating or pressing down of clothes, etc., in water to make them clean; an instance of this; (also) an implement used to beat clothes, a posser. Also in poss-stick. ΚΠ 1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. Give the linen a good poss in the peggy tub. 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. 105/1 The poss, or posser, being a wooden pin ‘with a thick knob at the immersed end, worked through a hole in the lid’. 1900 W. Dickinson & E. W. Prevost Gloss. Dial. Cumberland (rev. ed.) 248/2 Poss, a simple form of dolly in which the legs are replaced by two transverse cuts at the bottom of the stem where it is greatly reduced in diameter. 2002 P. Frank Yorks. Fisherfolk ix. 163 (caption) The fisherwoman at work with her poss-stick and peggy-tub. < as lemmas |
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