| 单词 | reed-press |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreed-press reed-press n. English regional (south-western) (now rare) a press for holding wheat used in reed-drawing; cf. sense 6a. ΚΠ 1836 Cottager's Monthly Visitor Dec. 416 The mode of preparing the straw is simply to take a sheaf of wheat, and to place it in a reed press. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xliii. 53 There had already been placed in the reed-press..as many sheaves of wheat as would be sufficient for the women to draw from during the day. < as lemmas |
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