| 单词 | climbing-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasclimbing-boy climbing-boy n. a chimney-sweep's boy formerly employed to climb chimneys (now illegal). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > cleaning chimneys > one who > boy climbing-boy1785 chummy1834 1785 Hanway (title) A Sentimental History of Chimney-Sweepers in London and Westminster, showing the necessity of putting them under regulations to prevent the grossest inhumanity to the Climbing Boys. 1803 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Dec. 255 A Machine..for cleansing Chimnies, without the Assistance of Climbing-boys. 1884 A. Lang in Harper's Mag. Nov. 895/1 A small ‘climbing boy’ being roasted to death up the chimney. < as lemmas |
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