| 单词 | short-stapled |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshort-stapled short-stapled adj. having a short staple (= short staple adj.; said also of wool). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > cotton > [adjective] > with long or short staple long-staple1587 short staple1802 short-stapled1834 1834 J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce (ed. 2) 436 [Cottons] are usually classed under the denominations of long and short stapled. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 126 Short-stapled, or cloth-wool, is valued by the fineness..and whiteness of its fibres. short-stapled Having a staple (of a certain kind). Chiefly in parasynthetic formations, as in long-stapled, short-stapled; thin-stapled; also well-stapled. a. Of wool, sheep; also of cotton, silk, etc.: see staple n.3 1. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > [adjective] > fibre of stapleda1592 a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. F4 My flockes, Yelding forth fleeces stapled with such woole, As Lempster cannot yelde more finer stuffe. 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 346 Of the fifteen millions of short stapled ones [sc. fleeces], which the kingdom produces, there are not five hundred thousand which even border upon perfection. 1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. iv** Coarser and shorter stapled cottons. 1865 Reader 8 July 47/1 He had himself seen, in Pekin, warehouses stored with..fine tobacco, short-stapled silk, paper [etc.]. b. Of soil: see staple n.3 3. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [adjective] > organic > mould mouldy1572 stapled1773 mouldish1866 1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 130 Taking away small stones and flints is detrimental to..thin stapled light lands, and to all lands of a binding nature. 1795 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Essex 27 A well stapled gravelly loam. 1844 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 i. 17 The thin-stapled lands of this district. < as lemmas |
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