| 单词 | bone-collector |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbone-collector c. Forming agent nouns, as bone-collector, bone-gnawer, bone-worker, etc.See also bone-breaker n., bone-picker n., bone-setter n. ΚΠ 1612 E. Coffin in R. Parsons Discuss. Answere William Barlow Pref. sig. m4v A Curr that snarles, a currish bloudhound, an opprobrious curr, base bone-gnawer. 1762 E. Collins Misc. in Prose & Verse 58 These I presume were the original Bone-Eaters; the very first Ostrophagi. 1884 Athenæum 6 Dec. 727/1 The..bone-gnawer of ‘Kent's Cavern’. 1984 Jrnl. Field Archaeol. 11 397/1 An unusual assemblage of industrial bone waste that allows one to study the selection criteria employed by a bone-worker. 2015 Times (Nexis) 16 May 30 A Scottish schoolboy and avid bone collector has been shortlisted alongside the world-renowned scientist Professor Robert Winston for a leading UK book award. < as lemmas |
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