| 释义 |
ˈsalt-box
[f. salt n.1 + box n.2]
1. a. A box for keeping salt for domestic use.
‘Billy in the Salt-box’ was the title of a caricature referring to Pitt's budget of 1805, in which the salt-tax was greatly increased.
1611Cotgr., Saulnier,..a Salt-box. 1812Examiner 12 Oct. 651/2 A few grains from the salt-box. 1862W. Barnes Homely Rhymes Dorset Dial. I. 5 The zalt-box an' the corner-cupb'ard.
b. (See quot. 1847–54.)
1763B. Thornton Ode on St. Cecilia's Day ad. fin., The saltbox..With clattering and clapping shall sound. 1774J. T. Smith Bk. Rainy Day (1861) 39 A famous player on the salt-box. 1813Sporting Mag. XLII. 19 The divine harmony of the Gong, the French-horn, and the Salt-box. 1847–54Webster s.v., In burlesque music, the salt-box has been used like the marrow-bones and cleaver, tongs and poker, etc.
c. U.S. Used attrib. or absol. to designate a kind of frame-house which resembles a salt-box in shape, having two storeys at the front and one at the back.
1876J. S. Ingram Centennial Exposition 717 One of the chief oddities of the Exhibition—the Hunter's Cabin. It was built of logs in the ‘salt-box’ style and entirely open in front. 1900J. de F. Shelton Salt-Box House i. 17 Colloquially, it was called a ‘salt-box house’, its lines repeating those of the wooden salt-box that hung in the kitchen chimney. The ridge-pole was set far to the front, from which a short roof sloped..down to the outer line of the ceiling of the ground floor. 1934Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 10/6 The first of the salt boxes were almost always made by adding the lean-to to the two-room house. 1944Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 2 Sept. 30/1 (Advt.), New England saltbox in scenic New York setting. 1952F. Allen Big Change ii. viii. 126 New England salt-box-type houses with attached garages. 1967V. Silter Biltmore Call 57 Some were remodelled farm houses..and some were old saltboxes..and some were just plain old country houses. 1976New Yorker 22 Mar. 125/1 Cunningly combining painted backcloths, a two-story saltbox frame, and picturesque detail in the way of furniture and properties, Ming Cho Lee's decor for the six different settings was at once varied, realistic, and romantic.
2. slang. (See quots.)
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Salt-boxes, the condemned cells in Newgate are so called. Ibid., Salt-box-cly, the outside coat-pocket, with a flap. 1820Lond. Mag. Jan. 29 Their..leaving the stone-jug, after a miserable residence in the salt-boxes, to be top'd in front of the debtor's door.
3. Naut. (See quot.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Salt-box, a case for keeping a temporary supply of cartridges for the immediate use of the great guns. |