| 单词 | sinkhouse |
| 释义 | > as lemmassinkhouse sinkhouse n. now archaic and rare a building containing a sink and used for washing and the disposal of waste water; a wash house.Quot. 1980 is from a historical novel. ΚΠ c1614 Description of Farm House (Brasenose Coll. Oxf. Archives) (Hurst Cal. of Munim. 11, Harrowden 32) A sinkehouse with a chamber over it. 1676 in F. W. Steer Farm & Cottage in Mid-Essex 1635—1749 (1969) 141 In the sinckhous chamber—1 featherbead, 1 flockebeade, 2 bedsteds, 1 ruge, 1 blanckote, [etc.] 1813 E. Parish Sacred Geogr. s.v. Bethesda Some will have the word Bethesda, to be the sink-house or drain, because the waters which came from the temple and the place where the victims were washed, flowed thither. 1902 Fourteenth Ann. Rep. Board of State Charities Indiana 44 The old sink house has been raised and made a two-story structure. 1980 E. Kelton Wolf & Buffalo (1986) xx. 385 You've been listening to sinkhouse rumors again. < as lemmas |
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