| 单词 | swine bristle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswine bristle swine bristle n. (also swine's bristle) [compare Middle Low German swīneborste, German Schweinsborste (mid 14th cent. in late Middle High German as sweinporste)] (usually in plural) one of the stiff hairs which grow on the back and sides of a pig; cf. swine hair n. ΚΠ c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 396 (MED) Þe harys on his browis war lyke swyne-brustyls. 1598 J. Mosan tr. C. Wirsung Praxis Med. Vniuersalis i. xii. 135 They also do further the bleeding at the nose, by thrusting in of swines bristles and such other. 1800 North-country Angler (ed. 3) xiii. 50 I would rather recommend a fine Indian grass, or a clear round silk work gut, or a fine small swine's bristle. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. i. 75/2 Working on tanned hides, amid pincers, paste-horns, rosin, swine-bristles, and a nameless flood of rubbish. 2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 2 Sept. 1 Then I rediscovered pork scratchings..with thick black swine bristles still attached to the crackling. < as lemmas |
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