| 单词 | shoe-bill stork |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshoe-bill(ed) stork shoe-bill n. (a) = shoe-bird n.; so shoe-bill(ed) stork; (b) a kind of nail used in shoemaking. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Balaenicipitidae (shoe-bill) shoe-bill1861 shoe-bird1861 shoe-beak1869 whale-headed stork1875 whale-head1884 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > equipment or materials for > equipment > nail for fastening parts of shoe-nailc725 sparablea1627 sparrow-bill1629 boot-naila1661 peg1714 shoe pin1714 shoe peg1854 shoe-bill1861 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 20 Feb. (1954) III. 381 There is a shoe-bill, a great bird of grotesque ugliness. 1874 H. M. Labouchere & W. Jesse tr. A. E. Brehm Bird-life 191 Balæniceps Rex, the Boot-bill, or Shoe-bill, as the Arab tribes of East Soudan call it. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 91 Nail manufacture... Shoe Bill, Cutter. 1957 Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Zool. 5 111 (heading) The Pelecaniform characters of the skeleton of the Shoe-bill Stork. 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating iii. 40 A person points to the beak of a shoe~billed stork and says That's a big bill. 1975 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 17 Dec. 6/3 Shoebill stork..is one of only eight. < as lemmas |
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