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单词 sugar-chest
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sugar-chestn.

Forms: Also Scottish suckar kist.
Obsolete.
1. A chest for sugar.
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > chest, box, or bag > for sugar
sugar-chest1549
sugar-box1796
1549 in Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. (1911) IX. 345 For..careing of ane suckar kist furtht of Leytht to Edinburght..vj s.
2. Applied to the hard wood of various trees and to the trees themselves: see quots.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > [noun] > hardwood tree > particular hardwood trees or shrubs
witch hazela1400
mazer?c1475
hardbeam1544
sugar-chest1545
hornbeam1577
yoke tree1585
yoke elm1597
iron tree1623
ironwood1672
horn-wood1731
horse-beech1731
horn-beech1771
hardwood1842
stonewood1863
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > hardwood > names for very hard wood
sugar-chest1545
ironwood1625
stonewood1863
1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 12 Steles [of arrows] be made of dyuerse woodes..as..Sugercheste [etc.].
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) ix. f. 121 From vnderneath a Sugarchest [tr. sub ilice].
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 149/1 Alnus nigra,..the blacke alder tree: some take it to be that which is commonly called sugerchest.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Evano, Ebenus Sugarchest.
1609 J. Davies Holy Roode Ded. sig. A2 To Flesh and Blood this Tree but Wormewood seemes, How ere the same may be of Suger-chest.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 29 I us'd to make them of Sugar-Chest; That Stuff being commonly well-season'd, by the long lying of the Sugar in it, and is besides a fine hard Wood.
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