| 单词 | cheese-wring |
| 释义 | > as lemmascheese-wring cheese-wring n. now historical (a) = cheese press n.; (b) any of a number of tors thought to resemble a cheese-wring, esp. one located near Liskeard, Cornwall. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > cheese-press cheese press1388 cheese-wring1526 wring1891 1526 in J. P. Collier Trevelyan Papers (1857) 128 ij chese wrynges. a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in Select Remains (1760) 289 Two Miles North of St. Clere, are those Stones which they call the Cheese-Wring. 1859 Geologist Aug. 302 Isolated heaps or pillars, such as ‘cheesewrings’. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Cheese-wring, a cheese-press, found in every dairy. A rock at Lynton is called ‘the Devil's Cheese-wring’. 1974 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 86/4 Pottery cheese-wrings have been found on many Romano-British sites. < as lemmas |
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