单词 | skin-cover |
释义 | > as lemmasskin-cover a. In sense 1b, with the sense ‘made, or consisting, of skin’, as skin bag, skin boat, skin-bottle, skin canoe, skin-cover, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > made of skinc1503 hided1807 rawhide1812 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > boat made with hides skin boat1804 bull-boat1837 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > skin bladder?c1225 bulgec1230 bouge1387 budget1432 bulgetc1550 paidle1568 catskin1599 budge1606 petaca1648 taureau1794 buffalo-bag1856 mochila1856 parfleche1867 skin bag1910 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxxv/2 Long skyne threde & Iukyll at viij d. 1562 T. Sternhold et al. Whole Bk. Psalmes cxix. 313 As a skin bottell in the smoke, so am I partcht and dryed. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 73v If..our costly skinne-cases, could keepe vs from consuming to dust. 1625 S. Purchas tr. G. Balbi in Pilgrimes (new ed.) II. x. v. 1723 To water their fields they vse abundance of skin-bottles. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Luke i. 59) A skin-bottle hanging in the smoke of filthy desires. 1743 J. Isham Observ. Hudsons Bay (1949) 88 These Natives has no wodden or fine brick houses,..Living all in skin tents. 1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 128 This plate is to be moved round,..rubbing it with a small skin cushion. 1804 W. Clark Jrnl. 21 July in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1986) II. 403 The Indians pass this river in Skin Boats which is flat and will not turn over. 1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) ii. 155 We..nearly compleated the frame of a skin Canoe. 1871 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 246 Skin shoes tied about the ankle with neat thongs. 1895 W. C. Scully Kafir Stories 123 He carried a small skin wallet slung to his waist. 1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars xxviii. 237 Having cut one of their skin-bags to pieces. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring ii. ix. 408 They drew the skin-covers over their boats. 1968 G. Jones Hist. Vikings i. i. 17 These hunters, fishermen, and food-gatherers from the south..developed the skin-boat. 1992 M. Ondaatje Eng. Patient ix. 249 Water in a skin bag he had filled from the ain hung from his shoulder and sloshed like a placenta. < as lemmas |
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