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单词 tall-necked
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tall-necked
C1. Parasynthetic, as tall-bodied (having a tall body), tall-elmed, tall-hatted, tall-masted, tall-necked, tall-sceptred, tall-stemmed, tall-tussocked, tall-wheeled, etc.; quasi-adv., as tall-growing, tall-sitting.
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c1725 J. Armstrong Imitations Shaks. in Misc. (1770) I. 147 A blast so shrewd makes the tall-bodied pines Unsinew'd bend.
1825 J. G. Whittier Poet. Wks. (1898) 522/2 With tall-masted ships on their broad bosoms riding.
1855 P. J. Bailey Spiritual Legend in Mystic 105 Tall-sceptred law, and loin-girt liberty.
1877 F. J. Furnivall Leopold Shakspere Introd. 117 You ride through Charlecote's tall-elmd park.
1885 R. Kipling Departm. Ditties (1886) 33 I drive no tall-wheeled traps.
1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 63 The tall-tussocked grass of the waste lands.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 6 July 2/1 A very tall-sitting lady, with a tremendous matinée hat, sat down in front of me.
1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 203 Sun-flowers, and other succulent tall-growing things.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 243 H. halted and four tallhatted white flagons halted behind him.
1925 J. Ferguson in Oxf. Poetry 18 The tall-stemmed candles brighten.
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) II. 921/1 In the tall-stemmed section, such as G[rammatophyllum] speciosum, there are probably six species.
1972 D. Lees Zodiac 27 A tall-hatted chef [was] serving a cold lunch.
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