单词 | dust-yard |
释义 | > as lemmasdust-yard dust-yard n. (also figurative) ΚΠ 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 216/1 The dust-yards must not be confounded with the ‘night-yards’. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. ix. 232 Her father was usually sifting and sifting at his parliamentary cinder-heap in London..and was still hard at it in the national dust-yard. 1904 Daily Chron. 27 Sept. 8/2 In a few odd corners of London there still exist dustyards in which the refuse of the great city is sifted and sorted. < as lemmas |
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