| 单词 | a pair of nutcrackers |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pair of nutcrackers b. In plural in same sense; applied spec. to such a device consisting of two pivoted limbs. Frequently as a pair of nutcrackers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts nutcracker1481 nut-crack1570 nutcrackers1600 crackera1640 crack-nut1656 orange-strainer1688 apple scoop1696 orange-peel cutter1757 apple corer1778 lemon-squeezer1781 corer1789 orange squeezer1815 seeder1865 sweat-box1870 reamer1894 stemmer1898 juicer1938 zester1963 1600 T. Dekker Old Fortunatus sig. A3v My teeth are turn'd into Nut crackers, a thousand to one I breake out shortly, for I am full of nothing, but waxing kernels. a1640 P. Massinger & J. Fletcher Very Woman iii. ii. 34 in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) A thousand Iron-mills Can be heard no further then a pair of Nut-crackers. 1736 T. Sheridan Let. 15 Sept. in J. Swift Wks. (1768) XIII. 177 I shall send..a fine pair of Cavan nut-crackers to save her white teeth. a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) iii. 52 A pair of nut-crackers presented by Harry the Eighth to Anna Bullen. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 298 A pair of bellows, nut-crackers, &c. are composed of two levers of the second kind. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations II. iv. 68 Forgetting all about the baby on her lap: who did most appalling things with the nutcrackers. 1915 W. Cather Song of Lark ii. iv. 192 He..took up the nut-crackers and a Brazil nut. 1987 My Weekly 21 Feb. 37 I purchased wooden nut-crackers, carved in the form of a grinning Troll. < as lemmas |
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