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单词 goose-bill
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goose-billn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈgoose-bill.
Used as a name for things resembling the bill of a goose.
1. The plant Galium Aparine: = goose-grass n. 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > goose-grass or cleavers
cleaversc1000
hairifc1000
tongue-bleedc1450
goose-grass1530
goose-hairif1551
goose-share1578
clithers1597
goose-bill1597
philanthropos1597
love-man1598
rundles1601
rennet wort1688
catchweed1691
goose-tongue1738
sticking-grass1829
scratch-weed1855
turkey-grass1874
beggars'-lice1880
tongue-bleeder1905
1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Goose bill Aparine.
1886 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Goosebill, the Galium aparine, in reference to the serrated edges of the leaves and their resemblance to the rough edges of the mandibles of the goose.
2. A kind of forceps for extracting bullets, etc. (Cf. crow-bill n. 2) Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > instruments for extracting foreign bodies
ground-drawer1598
upheaver1598
crow-bill1611
probang1657
stork's bill1671
goose-bill1676
alphonsine1688
protracter1726
protractor1728
bullet-drawer1752
parasol probang1882
coin-catcher1895
1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Goos-bill, a Chirurgeons instrument of the same use as a Crow-bill.
1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
1735 W. Pardon Dyche's New Gen. Eng. Dict. Goose-bill, a Surgeon's Instrument, made somewhat in such a Shape.
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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