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单词 cinder-sifter
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cinder-sifter
cinder-sifter n. (a) one who sifts cinders (also figurative); (b) a contrivance for sifting dust or ashes from cinders.
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1820 J. Keats Let. Aug. (1931) II. 561 Nothing is so bad as want of health—it makes one envy Scavengers and Cinder-sifters.
1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. iii. 31 1 Cinder sifter..1s. 3d.
1876 C. H. Spurgeon Commenting 8 Gill was a cinder-sifter among the Targums, the Talmuds, etc.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 71/2 Acting as a ‘Tidy Betty’ with Cinder-sifter.
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