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单词 kettle or screw
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kettle or screw
c. In extended use: wine. Only in screw or kettle: wine or punch; also kettle or screw. Obsolete. rare.With reference to wine coming from a bottle opened with a corkscrew and punch being made with hot water from a kettle.
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1832 J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times III. 44 He was the hardest-goer either at kettle or screw..of the whole grand-jury.
1835 W. H. Maxwell My Life II. i. 7 Good eating, produced good drinking;..and the commander politely inquired whether I would be for ‘screw or kettle’.
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