| 单词 | wattle and daub |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswattle and daub a. Material for daubing walls, etc.; plaster, rough mortar; clay or mud mixed with stubble or chaff, used with laths or wattle to form the walls of cottages, huts, etc. Hence wattle and daub (also dab). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plaster > [noun] > plaster mixed with stubble daub1446 dab1833 1446 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 82 Item for ryses for the dawbes..ij d. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 514 Payd..for bryngyng of dawbe and cley in to the said castell. 1587 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1885) II. 18 For ye cariage of any mucke, dunge, dawbe, clay. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxx. 74 The soyle..which, with water..they make into Clay, or a certaine dawbe. 1857 D. Livingstone Missionary Trav. S. Afr. xix. 369 Traders' houses..built of wattle and daub. 1876 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land II. 22 Heaps of filthy hovels, wattle and daub and dingy thatch. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) 279 A raddle and dobe house. wattle and daub (dab) wattle and daub (dab) n. interwoven twigs plastered with clay or mud, as a building material for huts, cottages, etc.; chiefly attributive. Also (rarely) extracted from wattlen.1< as lemmas |
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