单词 | spittle-spade |
释义 | > as lemmasspittle-spade attributive and in other combinations, as spittle fork, spittle-maker, spittle-spade. See also spittle-staff n. ΚΠ 14.. Tundale's Vis. 724 Summe had..nawg[er]es, Cultorus, syþus kene wytall, Spytyll-forkus þe sowlys to fall. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 608 Let there bee then either a small furrow rased along just through the middest of the shaddow with a spittle spade, or the point of some hooke. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 43 Spittle Maker (Spade Handle). < as lemmas |
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