| 单词 | slab-built |
| 释义 | > as lemmasslab-built a. With past participles, as slab-bridged (figurative), slab-built, slab-roofed, slab-walled. Cf. slab-sided adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > evasive deception, shiftiness > [adjective] slipperc1000 hinderc1200 slidderya1250 covert1340 unwrast1393 slyc1440 slippery1555 fetching1570 shifting1581 as slippery as an eel1601 roundabout1608 corner-creeping1610 shuffling1616 prevaricatory1645 prevaricative1657 sliverly1674 whifflinga1680 sneak-pasty1681 slid1719 evasive1725 shauchling1755 shifty1837 slab-bridged1845 sneaky1861 pussy-footed1893 sidewinding1902 slithery1902 pussyfooting1926 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [adjective] > of the nature of a wall > types of wall > having specific type of wall cob-walled1820 slab-walled1845 1845 Voy. Port Philip 52 His slab-built hut, with roof of bark. 1859 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 642/1 Anyone who has driven over a mountain-stream by one of those bridges made of slabs will feel the force of a term we once heard applied to a parson so shaky in character that no dependence could be placed on him,—‘A slab-bridged kind o' feller!’ 1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 119 I suspect that he confounded those mysterious slab-built uags with the real hour-glass tower. 1867 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. (new ed.) p. xlviii The picturesque force of the epithet slab-bridged applied to a fellow of shaky character. 1896 B. M. Croker Village Tales 99 The little slab-roofed dwelling. 1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. viii. 213 The slab-walled, earthen-floored hut. < as lemmas |
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