| 单词 | washing bat |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswashing bat washing bat n. Historical (see quot. 1898). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > implement for beating clothes battledorec1440 washing-beetlec1440 wash-beetlea1575 batting-staff1611 batlera1616 posser1764 batting-log1798 paddle1884 washing bat1898 1898 Eng. Dial. Dict. at Bat The washing bat was used to beat the dirty clothes after they had been ‘put to soak’. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 149/2 A woman hitting a man with a washing bat is carved on an oak misericord of 1401, in Carlisle Cathedral... It shows that early washing bats were more shovel-shaped, with wider, shorter blades. 1983 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 15/3 These finely decorated washing bats..were once used to beat the washing. < as lemmas |
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