| 单词 | cricket catcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmascricket catcher cricket catcher n. a person who or thing which catches crickets.In quot. 1582 apparently used as a derogatory term; cf. spider-catcher n. 1a. ΚΠ 1582 R. Madox Diary 28 June in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 148 God send me discreet and wyse governowrs as be gentilmen in deed and not such crycketcatchers as never cam wher yt grew. 1852 S. Crowther Vocab. Yoruba Lang. 212 Oju-kò-bire,..bird called the cricket-catcher. 1900 E. R. Scidmore China xvii. 259 Each cricket-catcher had a dozen or more russet and brown-black little fiddlers tied fast along twigs. 2002 Animals' Agenda 22 16 The device was a ‘cricket catcher’. < as lemmas |
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