单词 | spelling-book |
释义 | spelling-bookn. A book designed to teach spelling. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > spelling > [noun] > spelling book, primer spelling-book1677 speller1864 1677 T. Lye (title) New Spelling-Book. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 296. ⁋1 By the Assistance of a Spelling-Book it's legible. 1723 B. Mandeville Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 332 Buried alive in their Hall under a great heap of Primers and Spelling-books. a1795 J. Boswell Life Johnson (1799) I. 20 Tom Brown..‘published a spelling-book, and dedicated it to the Universe’. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 119 Superintending the different exercises of the needle, the spelling-book, and the slate. 1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa (1854) xx. 177 Nature is a schoolmaster that teaches without spelling-books. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1677 |
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