| 单词 | sale gimlet |
| 释义 | > as lemmassale gimlet a. That is made to be sold; that may be purchased (not being needed for home use); hence, ready-made (as opposed to home-made); of inferior quality; e.g. sale bread, sale cloth, sale door, sale gimlet, sale ram, sale ware, sale work (also attributive). Also, connected with or producing things sold or intended for sale, e.g. sale gardener, sale kiln, sale pond. ? Now applied only to animals bred or fattened for sale. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > made or intended to be sold sale1455 for salea1616 made to sell1827 society > trade and finance > merchandise > article(s) to be sold > [adjective] > other types of article production sale1455 countrymade1791 ready-made1799 cruelty-free1986 the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [adjective] > prepared or ready > made ready > ready or in a finished state > of articles for sale ready-made?a1425 sale1455 made-up1725 society > trade and finance > selling > [adjective] > made or intended to be sold > connected with or producing sale1691 1455 Rolls of Parl. V. 304/1 The Subsidie and Awenage of sale Clothes, in the Counte of Wiltes. 1505 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 392 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 That there be no sale bread..mad in towne, but by ffre men. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 69 In old time there were almost an hundreth shops of sale-bookes. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 39 God hath not giuen such gifts vnto men, to the end they should make sale-ware of them. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. v. 44 I see no more in you then in the ordinary Of Natures sale -worke? View more context for this quotation a1674 Earl of Clarendon Dialogue conc. Educ. in Tracts (1727) 314 They would find ample Recompence in the first Growth of their Children, unimpaired by any ill Qualities of Sale-Milk. 1679 T. Shadwell True Widow Epil. Our Poet therefore Sale-work Habits makes. 1691 J. Gibson in Archaeologia 12 191 Darby, at Hoxton,..is master of several curious greens that other sale-gardeners want. 1777 W. Marshall Minutes Agric. 20 Feb. (1778) A middling field-load of wheat will yield a sale-load of straw, of 1296 lb. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 396 Most of the farmers here burn lime for themselves..and think they have it much cheaper than it could be got from a sale kiln. 1815 S. Parkes Chem. Catech. I. 300 In the end they [sc. ash-pit doors] will be found to be more economical than any ready-make sale-doors. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales (ed. 2) II. viii. 166 The common English sale gimlets are either soon broken at the point by our woods, or else the handle becomes loose. 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 151 The sale ewe lambs. 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 157 These sale rams are injured, and in many cases rendered useless by overfeeding. 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Sale-pond,..a pond devoted to fishes kept for sale. < as lemmas |
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