| 单词 | tommy cooker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasTommy cooker Tommy cooker n. (also Tommy's cooker) Military slang (now historical) a small portable spirit stove; (also) any device improvised or adapted to serve as a stove. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > stove or cooker > [noun] range1423 buccan1611 fire-range1668 stew-stove1727 screw-range1772 stew-hole1780 cooking stove1796 range stove1803 cooking range1805 cookstove1820 kitchener1829 gas range1853 cooker1860 gas cooker1873 Soyer's stove1878 hay-box1885 blazer1889 machine oven1890 paraffin stove1891 primus1893 electric cooker1894 electric range1894 Yukon stove1898 fireless cooker1904 picnic stove1910 pressure stove1914 Tommy cooker1915 rangette1922 Aga1931 barbecue1931 Rayburn1947 sigri1949 jiko1973 1915 Evening News 23 Feb. 8/4 Called ‘Tommy's Cooker,’ it is a compact little tin, with an extension on which a kettle or bully beef tin can easily be balanced. 1919 N.Y. Times 23 Feb. iv. 12/2 When 4 o'clock came around every man-jack of us would take out his Tommy-cooker and begin making his tea... It's a bit of a burlap bag, rolled up very tight and soaked in fat or candle grease. 1948 A. Baron From City, from Plough xviii. 165 On the little tommy-cookers that they sheltered between their feet they brewed..tea in their mess-tins. 2013 J. Jacobs From Imjin to Hook vi. 91 It all seemed eerily quiet as I heated a breakfast can of C rations on my Tommy's Cooker. < as lemmas |
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