| 单词 | meat-jack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmeat-jack meat-jack n. a machine for turning the spit in roasting meat (cf. Jack n.2 5). ΚΠ 1785 Daily Advertiser (N.Y.) 29 Aug. (advt.) in R. S. Gottesman Arts & Crafts in N.Y. (1938) I They are valuable above the other roast meat jacks, being moveable and may be used in any room. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. iv. 210 An unfortunate rusty Meat-jack, gnarring and creaking with rust and work. 1951 P. Larkin Let. 13 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 170 It's raining tonight, very black. I wonder if you are sitting in the ballock-warming glow of a fire, under some disused meat-jack, your mind removed from all verbal fantasies. < as lemmas |
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