单词 | sweating-house |
释义 | sweating-housen. 1. A house or building in which persons are sweated, esp. by way of curative treatment; spec. among the North American Indians = sweat-house n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > sweating-house sweating-place1591 sweating-house1664 sweat-house1750 sweat-lodge1887 1664 S. Pepys Diary 16 Sept. (1971) V. 272 The general cure for all diseases there [i.e. in Russia] is their sweating-houses. 1791 J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 47 When the pipe has gone round, a sweating-house is prepared with six long poles fixed in the ground [etc.]. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 276 Making a rude sweating-house on the banks of the river. 2. In Spain, a hut into which sheep are crowded together so as to sweat, in order to soften the wool for shearing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > pens used before or after shearing catching pen1826 sweating-house1832 counting-out pen1874 sweating pen1882 1832 Encycl. Americana XI. 353 A narrow, long, low hut, called the sweating-house, where the sheep, being much crowded, perspire freely. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1664 |
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