| 单词 | steam trowel |
| 释义 | > as lemmassteam trowel C4. In the names of implements, machines, processes, etc. operated by steam or by a steam-engine, as steam-crane, steam dredge, steam dredger, steam drill, steam-dryer, steam elevator, †steam-gun, steam-hammer, steam-mill, steam-milling, steam-plough, steam-ploughing, steam press, steam-pump, steam shovel (hence steam-shovelful), steam-thresher, steam-threshing, steam trowel, steam-trumpet, steam-whim, steam-winch, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > steam press steam press1801 society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > other mills martinet?c1475 watermill1580 overfall mill1615 breast mill1659 undershot1705 merchant mill1759 pounding mill1785 floating mill1796 steam-mill1801 pecker1802 chip mill1819 society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > excavator steam shovel1801 steam trowel1801 excavator1843 earthmover1871 navvy1877 steam-navvy1881 backhoe1928 Traxcavator1940 back-acter1957 society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > dredging equipment dredge1471 clam-shell1508 drag1611 steam dredge1801 dredging-machine1830 hedgehog1838 bag and spoon1840 hydrophore1842 dredger1863 gold dredge1881 gold dredger1897 suction dredge1901 bucket dredge1907 cutter-dredge1913 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of horn > [noun] > horn or hooter post-horna1652 steam-trumpet1801 blast-horn1844 fish-horn1856 hooter1878 klaxon1910 beep-beep1929 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > lift or hoist steam elevator1801 hoist1835 lift1851 elevator1853 tube-lift1915 stairlift1977 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > dredger-hopper steam dredger1801 steam hopper1812 hopper-dredge1896 suction dredger1911 society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > drill > power drills steam drill1801 power drill1867 machine drill1869 society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun] > shovel > other shovels shod-shovel1465 scoop1487 peel?a1500 paring-shovel1531 cole-rake1575 rabble1664 van1664 steam shovel1801 ballast wagon1838 wirra1896 power shovel1902 society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > press > other presses rolling press1785 packing press1796 steam press1801 bench press1852 platen press1854 hot press1943 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine > other steam vessels steam dredger1801 steam barge1812 steam hopper1812 steam-launch1812 steam schooner1812 steam-yacht1812 steam-tug1835 pleasure steamer1839 tug-steamer1861 ditcher1877 alligator1884 turnabout1885 tank-steamer1889 whaleback1891 whalebacker1891 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [adjective] steam1801 power-driven1835 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > place for bathing > bath-house > hot bathroom or sweating-room stovec1485 sudatory1615 laconicum1696 laconic1742 sweating-room1744 caldarium1753 sudatorium1757 steam1801 sudarium1852 sauna1881 sweat-lodge1887 sweat-box1974 1801 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 91 160 It..has now four fire-engines and two steam-whims on it. 1804 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Mar. 161 (title) Description of a new Steam Digester for Philosophical Researches. 1812 Ann. Reg., Chron. 79 They entered into a solemn obligation to destroy steam-looms, [etc.]. 1815 D. Drake Nat. & Statist. View Cincinnati iii. 137 The most capacious..building in this place is the Steam Mill. 1824 Reg. Arts & Sci. 2 105 Perkins's ‘Steam Gun’. 1843 Nasmyth in Civil Engineer & Archit. Jrnl. 6 41/2 With a view to relieve all these defects, I have contrived my direct action steam hammer. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xi. 131 A greater number..than the steam-gun can discharge balls in a minute. 1847 Mechanics' Mag. 30 Jan. 98 Mr. Osborn's patent system of steam ploughing. 1857 D. E. E. Braman Information about Texas iii. 79 There are three steam-mills in operation, sawing lumber, and grinding wheat and corn. 1861 Mitchell's Maritime Reg. 1651/3 The launch of the Ancona, a very fine steam dredger, of 300 tons, recently took place at Southampton. 1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies i. 35 The Word of God..cannot be..sown on any wayside by help either of steam plough or steam press. 1873 H. James Let. 25 Apr. (1974) I. 373 It was once a goodly old palace and though pitifully inconvenient as a hotel, is charminger to stay in than if it had a steam elevator. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 747/2 In 1796, Watt made a steam dredger for deepening Sunderland Harbor. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 464/1 The construction of large river steam dredges is now carried on by many engineering firms. 1879 R. J. Burdette Hawk-Eyes 25 The depot policeman looked in to say to him that if he was tired out, he would send in a section hand or the steam shovel to give him a spell. 1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 344/2 The grist from it [sc. the tide mill] is said to be of a better quality than from the steam-mills, as being less heated in the process. 1884 Leisure Hour Sept. 533/2 With one blow from a steam-riveter..they are securely fixed. 1889 ‘F. Anstey’ Pariah vi. i They're putting up swings and a steam-circus and tents. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlviii. 148 I have told the farmer that he has no right to employ women at steam-threshing. 1891 Argus (Melbourne) 7 Nov. 13/4 Occasionally..a British India liner rouses the echoes with the hoarse call of its steam siren. 1892 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Suppl. Steam Blower, a pipe and cock on a locomotive, employed to create a draught before the engine starts. 1893 K. D. Wiggin Polly Oliver (1894) xvi. 173 Who ever feels like telling a precious secret over a steam-heater? 1898 ‘H. S. Merriman’ Roden's Corner v. 45 Presently the jerk and clink of the steam-winch told that the anchor was being got home. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 763/2 The principal types of mechanical excavators are the steam navvy, or steam shovel, as it is commonly called in the United States. 1904 Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engineers 33 965 Steam-dryers are fitted in the flues of two of the boilers. 1906 T. Roosevelt Let. 10 Jan. in Proc. Congr. Constr. Patriotism 20 Nov. (1919) 182 There the huge steam-shovels are hard at it; scooping huge masses of rock and gravel and dirt. 1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xli. 367 He told how she and he were awakened by the sudden stoppage of the screw, followed by the roar of the steam-trumpet. 1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo xvii. 187 My heart was thumping like a steam hammer. 1925 L. R. Harris in Messenger VII. 387/1 A so-called ‘steam-drill’..guaranteed to drill a hole faster than any ten men could drill one in the old way with sledge hammer and steel. 1928 Observer 15 Apr. 5/4 The people in the restaurants shovel food into their mouths as the steam-trowel takes up its load of earth. 1937 Discovery Dec. 362/2 All advances in technique such as the steam press and the linotype, had been developed by the news-printer and later used by the book-printer. 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iii. 65 A wildcat transistor outfit that..was underselling even the Japanese and hauling in loot by the steamshovelful. 1972 J. Mosedale Football vii. 95 After a trip through the steam presses, caps and uniforms were either too large or too small. 1978 J. Irving World according to Garp iv. 79 His mouth still reminded Garp of a steam shovel's power. < as lemmas |
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