单词 | cat-and-clay |
释义 | > as lemmascat-and-clay cat-and-clay n. Scottish straw and clay worked together into pretty large rolls and laid between the wooden posts in constructing mud-walls. ΚΠ 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) 18 [The cottage] was built of timber stoops, and what we call cat and clay walls. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 410 The cat-and-clay hovels..had given place to neat..cottages. < as lemmas |
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