单词 | martin house |
释义 | > as lemmasmartin house martin house n. North American = martin box n. ΚΠ 1824 ‘A. Singleton’ Lett. from South & West 74 The tasteful slave makes, perchance a martin-house, by erecting a high pole having a number of hollow calabashes hung around the top of it. 1835 R. M. Bird Hawks of Hawk-hollow I. iii. 44 Here's..the identical old Folly, with..the pot in the chimney, and the martin-house on a pole. 1854 B. P. Shillaber Life & Sayings Mrs. Partington 101 He heard Gruff scolding Ike for throwing snowballs at his new Martin-house. 1884 ‘C. E. Craddock’ In Tennessee Mts. 1. 40 There was a lofty martin-house whence the birds whirled fitfully. 1949 Chicago Tribune 1 Sept. 7/5 The purple martins..hardly had been gone 24 hours before their apartments in the martin houses were taken over by house sparrows. 1986 G. Keillor Lake Wobegon Days 378 He had managed to take out her ornamental deer, a plywood Dutch windmill, and the martin house. 1992 Harrowsmith Oct. 96 (advt.) Purple Martin Houses—..white and green enamel finish. < as lemmas |
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