单词 | box-making |
释义 | > as lemmasbox-making C2. With participles, agent nouns, or verbal nouns, forming compounds in which box expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in box filling, box-making, box opener, box-packer, etc. ΚΠ 1686 W. K. Blount Spirit of Christianity v. 97 'Tis this Self-love which is so exact to observe Civility in Works of Charity: 'Twould shock her should she not pay her Devoirs to a sick Relation,..nor to give to a Box-carrier she esteems and values. 1827 Lancet 13 Jan. 496/2 The Students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital still complain of the rascally Box-carriers. 1904 Secret Service 8 Jan. 3/2 Sinkers procured a box opener and pried up the cover of the box. 1910 R. W. Sindall Paper Technol. (ed. 2) 240 Box boards, used for box-making of all kinds, and manufactured from mechanical wood pulp, old waste papers, hemp, &c. 1972 Films in Rev. Feb. 100/1 Archie, a modest-salaried box-packer straw-boss, not infrequently wears expensive clothing and thinks nothing of telephoning to California. 2005 T. Horlacher & R. Peters in A. J. Havercort & P. C. Struik Potato in Progress 198 A box filling chute at the discharge end of the hopper of the harvester provides a gentler filling of the tubers into the pallet boxes. < as lemmas |
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