| 释义 |
toˈbacco-box
1. A box for holding tobacco, esp. a small flat box to be carried in the pocket.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. i. i, Pray Iove the perfum'd courtiers keep their casting-bottles..from you, or our more ordinary gallants their tobacco-boxes. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. v. 100 A Tobacco box with a Burning Glasse. 1859Fairholt Tobacco 229 The old brass tobacco-box was generally oblong, and contained all the smoker required... There is a horn tobacco-box preserved in London.
2. Local name for two N. American fishes, from their flattened shape: (a) a species of skate or ray, Raia erinacea; (b) the common sunfish, Lepomis gibbosus, or other species of Lepomis (Cent. Dict.).
1877C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer i. 379 Black Perch, sometimes called ‘tobacco-box’; found in ponds. 1903Outing Apr. 134/1 He is content to lure to the surface..the ‘sunny’, ‘tobacco box’, or ‘pumpkin seed’. 1913A. Douglas Fast Nine 150 The commonest and smallest skate of the Eastern coast of the United States is the ‘Tobacco Box’. |