| 单词 | water sponge |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater sponge water sponge n. originally Scottish a piece of absorbent sponge; esp. a wet sponge used for washing or cleaning. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > [noun] > sponging > sponge spongec1000 water sponge1497 mop1838 sponge cloth1862 Turkey sponge1902 1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 377 Item, that samyn day, in Cambuskynneth, for water spowngis to the King, iij s. iiij d. ?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 52 I haif a watter spunge for wa within my wyde clokis. Than wring I it full wylely and wetis my chekis. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. vi. 8/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I There was sometime a stone found here..muche like to a water sponge or pumise. 1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 292 Watter spounges for chirurgeans. 1631 J. Lesly Epithrene 296 Our Sinnes..Vnto which our Teares are like vnto a Water-Spunge. If wee Weepe, then our Sinnes are blotted out of that Booke of Remembrance. 1803 Gen. Standing Orders 3rd Dragoon Guards 82 The underneath articles will be delivered by Clerks of troops... 1 Pair of Saddle Bags, lock and key... 1 Water Sponge [etc.]. 1912 W. C. Browne Pract. Text Bk. Lithogr. viii. 86 Clean the edges and other parts of the stone where there is no work with a water-sponge and piece of snake or pumice-stone. 2009 Bristol Post (Nexis) 16 May 18 I will even be held in the stocks for all current and ex-pupils to throw water sponges at! < as lemmas |
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