| 单词 | suet ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuet ball C2. As a modifier, designating items made with a mixture of suet and seeds, used to feed birds, as in suet ball, suet cake, etc. Also designating devices or methods used to deliver such food, as in suet dispenser, suet feeder, etc. ΚΠ 1912 Bull. Ohio Agric. Exper. Station Aug. 9 A suet ball may be suspended from a branch or under the porch for the Chickadees, Nuthatches and Downy Woodpeckers. 1915 House & Garden Aug. 46/1 (advt.) We make a large variety of feeding devices. Suet Feeders, Feeding Houses, Feeding Tables. 1974 Washington Post 29 Nov. c15/2 Suet can be made attractive to many birds by preparing homemade suet cakes with liberal additions of millets seeds. 2012 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 15 Jan. 1 a A downy woodpecker drills into a suet dispenser attached to Greene's mammoth bird feeder. 2015 P. J. Baicich et al. Feeding Wild Birds Amer. iv. 90 Novelty items like suet wreaths and suet pellets are for sale, as are the more common suet bells, all available through bird-feeding catalogs. < as lemmas |
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