单词 | rolling house |
释义 | > as lemmasrolling house rolling house n. U.S. (now historical) a warehouse, used for inspection or storage, to which tobacco is conveyed by rolling. ΚΠ 1705 Plain & Friendly Perswasive in Va. Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1897) Jan. 271 All Tobacco is brought to Landings or Rowling-Houses. 1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 446/2 The commonest mode of moving tobacco was yet more naked; the cask was strongly hooped, and then rolled..to the inspector's warehouse, known for this reason as a ‘rolling-house’. 1950 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 16 311 For those persons at great distances from the ports, rolling houses were to be established at convenient places. 2000 R. Hoffman Princes of Ireland iii. 119 The theft of hogsheads from rolling houses, losses in weight, and the cost of retaining clerks to assist him in keeping tenants' accounts certainly reduced his intake. < as lemmas |
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