| 单词 | cap-sheaf |
| 释义 | > as lemmascap-sheaf cap-sheaf n. (a) the top sheaf of a stack or rick; (b) figurative something which is the climax or acme. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > stooking > stook or cock > top sheaves of stook cap-sheaf1782 cap1790 hattock1879 1782 S. Baldwin in S. E. Baldwin Life & Lett. (1919) 106 The whole was crown'd with a cap-shief of Albany politeness. 1800 Aurora (Philad.) 8 Apr. (Thornton) Goodrich a cap-sheaf, won't be led. 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life Gloss. 292 Capsheaf, a small sheaf of straw forming the tip of a thatched rick. 1846–52 F. M. Whitcher Widow Bedott Papers ix. 88 Of all the strains ever I heerd of I should think that was the cap sheef. 1873 ‘Josiah Allen's Wife’ My Opinions & Betsey Bobbet's 337 Of all the painted..critters I ever see, she was the cap sheaf. < as lemmas |
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