| 单词 | humming-top |
| 释义 | > as lemmashumming-top c. Sometimes hyphenated with its noun, forming a quasi-compound denoting a particular kind of the thing in question, as humming-bee, humming-top, humming-wheel. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > top > [noun] > humming-top top13.. castle-topa1774 humming-top1819 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xl. 326 We..shut into a great Receiver a Humming Bee. 1819 J. Keats Let. 27 Sept. (1958) II. 216 I shall..make his little Boy a present of a humming top. 1837 T. Hood Ode to My Son ii Thou human humming-bee, extracting honey From ev'ry blossom. 1837 London Med. Gaz. 1 Apr. 8/1 He compares it to the sound of a humming-top, or some such toy, called a ‘diable’ in French. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems (1857) 123 The Parcae..at their humming-wheel. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) iii, in Writings I. 18 Battledores, humming-tops. humming-top Other tops, as the peg-top, are spun in the same way, but not whipped; some are spun by the action of a spring. humming-top, a hollow top, usually of metal, with perforations, which makes a humming noise in spinning. parish top, town top, a large top kept for public use, which two players or parties whipped in opposite directions. See also quot. 1911.extracted from topn.2< as lemmas |
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