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单词 waulking song
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waulking song
waulking song n. a rhythmical song sung by fullers while fulling cloth.
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1887 Trans. Gaelic Soc. Inv. 13 201 The waulking songs that they would be expected to sing.
1918 Times 24 Aug. 9/2 The process of shrinking wool has honour done to it in the Scots ‘waulking’ songs, sung as the cloth is passed from hand to hand across a long table to be wrung out.
1951 E. Linklater Laxdale Hall xxiii. 189 A wauking-song was the next item, with a lively chorus; but very few people sang the chorus.
2002 Evening News (Edinburgh) (Nexis) 12 Dec. 29 The sound is mesmerising, no matter whether the song is a Gaelic waulking song, or a contemporary classic.
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