| 单词 | honey barge |
| 释义 | > as lemmashoney barge honey barge n. U.S. slang (chiefly Navy) (now historical) a barge or boat for transporting refuse or (esp.) sewage; cf. sense A. 8. ΚΠ 1929 Forum May 302/1 ‘I'd jest as soon they give me a honey barge to sail in,’ he would grumble, but if anyone else had compared his ship with a garbage scow, he would have thrown forty fits. 1945 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. 8/2 A ‘honey barge’, one of the boats that collects garbage for fertilizer. 1962 R. McKenna Sand Pepples v. 86 It's easy to walk a honey barge gunwale most times... Only..they was level full, all greenish-brown and covered with flies and bubbles rising and breaking in the hot sun. 2012 G. Crouch China's Wings i. 9 Bond cringed as the lighter steamed past an anchored ‘honey barge’ awaiting the tide's ebb, heaped to its putrid gunwales with Shanghai ‘night soil’. < as lemmas |
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