单词 | train fat |
释义 | > as lemmastrain fat attributive as train bottle, train fat, etc. See also train oil n. ΚΠ 1676 in D. W. Prowse Hist. Newfoundland (1895) viii. 205/2 Capt. Russell forc'd several Masters of shipps..to build up again their trayne houses, themselves had cut down contrary to their order. 1698 Act 10 Will. III c. 14 §7 Any Houses Stages Cook-Rooms Train-Fats or other Conveniencies for fishing there [sc. Newfoundland]. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4378/3 23 Train-Fats burnt;..1568 Hogsheads of Train-Oil destroyed. 1784 tr. D. Crantz in T. Pennant Arctic Zool. I. iii. 152 Of the skins of the entrails [of the seal] they [sc. Greenlanders] make their windows..; and they make train bottles of the maw. 1823 T. Bond Topogr. & Hist. Sketches E. & W. Looe 81 The oil issues out of the bottoms of the casks, and runs into the pits called the train-pits. 1982 P. C. Cohen Calculating People (1999) ii. 76 Two months later he sent back details on the number of fishermen, planters,..quantities of fish, and ‘train-fats’ (whale oil). < as lemmas |
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