单词 | road scraper |
释义 | > as lemmasroad scraper road scraper n. Π 1798 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex xv. 396 An expenditure of such a trifle as twenty pounds, in the employment of a road-scraper, drawn by one horse, would have effectually kept it [sc. a road] clean and dry. 1853 S. Strickland 27 Years in Canada West I. 308 (note) A road-scraper, or turnpike shovel, worked either with horses or oxen. 1989 R. MacNeil Wordstruck iii. 80 The tall young man..told me he had seen the dog. ‘Must've been hit by the road scraper.’ < as lemmas |
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