| 单词 | rump end |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrump end rump end n. = senses 1, 2a; also in extended use. ΚΠ a1658 J. Cleveland Answer Pamphlet in Wks. (1687) 105 A most acute Apothegm..and such on one as may well beseem the Rump-end of Licosthenes at the next Impression. 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xxi. 71 The gardener..led out the two old mules to clip the hair from the rump-ends of their tails. 1860 R. F. Williams Domest. Mem. II. v. 134 The yeomen..shared the sticking-place, the flanks, and the rump end of beef. 1943 E. Pound in E. Mullins This Difficult Individual (1961) x. 232 The territory already crushed and defiled by..the rump end of the mercantile system. 2008 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 17 May 22 There now appears the rump end of a digging wombat, claws showing on his disappearing hind legs. < as lemmas |
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