单词 | mealie-stamper |
释义 | > as lemmasmealie-stamper mealie-stamper n. [ < mealie n. + Afrikaans stamper pounder, crusher] a large wooden pestle and mortar, used in traditional rural African households in South Africa for pounding maize into meal. ΚΠ 1890 A. Martin Home Life Ostrich Farm 228 The centre of an old waggon-wheel did duty very effectually as our mealie-stamper. 1925 P. Smith Little Karoo 18 Just outside the door was the worn mealie-stamper, cut out of a tree-trunk and shaped like an hour-glass, in which the mealies were pounded into meal. 1992 E. Palmer Return to Camdeboo 189 I also have my mealie stamper which was made for me for my marriage. 2007 K. G. Tomaselli Writing in San/d 100 A wooden mealie stamper was to be seen next to the horns of a hartebeest. < as lemmas |
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