| 单词 | hump-shaped |
| 释义 | > as lemmashump-shaped C1. attributive and in other combinations, as hump-curer, hump-meat, hump rib; hump-shaped adj. See also humpback n., humpbacked adj., hump-shoulder n., hump-shouldered adj. Π 1807 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1808) 11 42 A mandate to Calcutta, enjoining the principal hump-curer..to buy up all the humps that could be had. 1834 in Oreg. Hist. Soc. Q. (1916) XVII. 126 The tongue, the heart, the marrow bones and the hump ribs is all they use when meat is plenty. 1836 W. Irving Astoria III. 98 The hump meat afforded them a repast fit for an epicure. 1839 J. K. Townsend Narr. Journey Rocky Mts. iii. 164 They..appeared to be surveying, with the keenness of morning appetite, the fine ‘hump ribs’ which were roasting before them. 1861 G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman xiv. 262 I found that it was the ‘hump-rib’. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Aug. 13/2 The water is collected on a hump-shaped hill called the Knoll, and descends..to the village. < as lemmas |
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