单词 | cabbage net |
释义 | > as lemmascabbage net cabbage net n. a small net designed for boiling cabbage in, often also used for other purposes. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > net for vegetables pot-net1562 cabbage net1642 1642 Prince Roberts Disguises Thomason Tracts CXXVII. No. 18. A4 He met with a fellow that was rideing to Warwicke, but stayed there by chance to drinke, to sell Cabbage Nets, to boyle Cabbage in. 1742 W. Shenstone School-mistress xxvi Apples, with Cabbage-net y-cover'd o'er. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xiv. 224 Officers who boil their 'tators in a cabbage-net hanging in the ship's coppers. 1900 Derby Mercury 30 May 7/5 These sticks always have a fool kid at one end and a muslin cabbage net at the other; and they fish for what they can catch. 2003 M. Sedgwick Dark Horse i. iii They hurried to the broch, but Mouse stumbled, catching her feet in the cabbage net. < as lemmas |
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