| 单词 | road dust |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroad dust road dust n. dust or dirt found on roads; (in early use spec.) such dirt containing manure, and hence used as fertilizer (cf. road drift n., road scraping n. (a)). Π 1795 D. Walker Gen. View Agric. Herts. 65 [He has] drained great part of his grass land, and dresses it with calcined bones..and also with drift sand or road dust. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. vi. 195 So strange to have the road-dust on his feet instead of the coal-grit. 1857 G. W. Thornbury Songs of Cavaliers & Roundheads 188 Where the road-dust clogs and clings. 1910 J. Masefield Ballads & Poems 47 A road without earth's road-dust Is the right road for me. 1993 Amicus Jrnl. Spring 46/3 Here and there Masai lean on their spears, their shukas dulled with road dust. < as lemmas |
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