| 单词 | spirit shop |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspirit shop (i) With the sense ‘used for holding, storing, or selling alcoholic spirits’, as spirit cask, spirit cellar, spirit jar, spirit shop, etc. ΚΠ 1766 L. Carter Diary 15 May (1965) I. 299 Filled my Spirit case this day... Quantity: 4 gallons. 1783 Appeal from Scotl. to House of Lords 3 He..has seen him make his Surveys of Spirit Cellars, of which the Deponent had one. 1835 Mirror of Parl. (1st Sess., 12th Parl.) 1 983/2 I would willingly, if there was any chance of succeeding, include spirit-shops. 1894 Funk's Standard Dict. Spirit-beck, a beck or vat for containing the spirit in a distillery. 1942 Times 10 Jan. 2/2 Stealing two bottles of whisky, three empty cases, and an empty spirit jar. 2001 R. Kenna Glasgow Pub Compan. (ed. 2) 13 The ‘palace pubs’ of the 1880s, which adopted their mirrors, long bars, and rows of spirit casks. < as lemmas |
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