单词 | top-opening |
释义 | > as lemmastop-opening (a) Modifying participles, with the sense ‘at or to the top’, as in top-draining, top lacing, top-pruning (nouns); top-filled, top-laden, top-mounted, top-opening, (adjectives), etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. ΚΠ 1598 H. Petowe 2nd Pt. Hero & Leander C.iijv Griefes tearie chamber where sad care doth dwell, Where liquid teares, like top fil'd Seas doe flow. 1612 N. Field Woman a Weather-cocke iii. ii. E iv Oh good old woman, she is topshackeld. 1691 A. Gavin Observ. Journy to Naples 104 The Treasuries of their Churches are top fill'd with these kind of precious Relicks. 1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 587/2 There, topladen,..rolls in the country Baron and his household. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 343 Ringing..may often serve as a substitute both for root pruning and top pruning. 1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. Top-draining, the act or the practice of draining the surface of land. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 5 July 2/3 Black crowns Of wind-worn pines..top-turned by gales that weighed Them eastward. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby i. 8 He seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing. 1963 Which? 6 Feb. 36/1 The chest top-opening freezer. 2006 Vanity Fair Nov. 314/1 Some of the Humvees were equipped with top-mounted machine guns. < as lemmas |
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