| 单词 | hoop-shaver |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoop-shaver hoop-shaver n. (a) one who dresses wood for hoops; (b) a name given to a species of wood-boring bees. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > other woodworkers rough-hewer1574 hoop-shaver1688 timber-taster1803 spaller1843 pump log borer1857 stamp-cutter1858 creosoter1889 timberman1890 worm-eater1890 slabby1907 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > bee that bores wood hoop-shaver1688 1688 London Gaz. No. 2318/4 A Man of about 30 years old..by Trade a Hoopshaver, or Lathrender. a1793 G. White Observ. Insects in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 227 It strips off the pubes,..shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. 1864–5 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands (1868) viii. 180 One of the wood-boring bees..We will call it the Hoop-shaver. < as lemmas |
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