| 单词 | street sweeping |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstreet sweeping street sweeping n. the action or process of sweeping streets (frequently attributive); (in plural) refuse swept from the streets (now chiefly historical). ΚΠ ?1796 ‘W. Cobbett’ Life T. Paine 19 Oh, base democracy! Why, it is absolutely worse than street-sweepings, or the filth of common-sewers. 1843 Builder 18 Feb. 21/3 [Description of the] Patent Self-Loading Cart, or Street-Sweeping Machine. 1849 A. R. Wallace My Life (1905) I. xviii. 273 Piassaba (the coarse stiff fibre of a palm, used for making brooms for street-sweeping). 1921 Times 29 June 7 The arrangement to employ some unemployed for street sweeping on Sunday mornings has been discontinued by the Westminster Council. 1999 Guardian 10 Mar. i. 26/5 Stinking ‘dock dung’, a mixture of night soil, street sweepings with horse muck, fish waste and butchers' offal, was brought up the river in barges. 2003 N.Y. Mag. 24 Feb. 17/4 Traffic agents have tended to wink..at alternate-side double-parking on street-sweeping days. < as lemmas |
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