| 单词 | milk-walk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk-walk milk-walk n. now rare = milk round n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > milkman's delivery round milk-walk1805 milk round1865 milk route1874 milk run1909 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of milk > milkman's route milk-walk1805 1805 Mod. London App. Milk-Walks, that is, a certain proportion of neighbouring streets served by a particular person. c1864 W. Brough & ‘A. Halliday’ in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1973) IV. 240 I have a horse and cart, Miss Penelope, and a first-rate milk walk. 1905 G. B. Shaw in Grand Mag. Feb. 111 He..had..bought an agent's business as a doctor buys a practice or a dairyman a milkwalk. 1925 Notes & Queries 21 Mar. 208/1 In the dairy trade phrases such as ‘He has a milk-run’ or, ‘he has a milk-walk’..are common. 1997 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Dec. 50/4 Hogarth shows her pacing her ‘milk-walk’, a territory that was bought and sold. < as lemmas |
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