| 单词 | milk box |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmilk box milk box n. (a) a container in which milk is heated in the cheese-making process (rare); (b) a box in which milk can be stored to be kept cool; (c) a box, (now) esp. one on the outside of a house, to which milk and other such items can be delivered. ΚΠ 1867 Sci. Amer. 23 Mar. 186/3 An improved cheese vat, by means of which the heat applied to the milk box may be regulated as desired. 1874 Subject-matter Index Patents 1790–1873 (U.S. Patent Office) II. 925 Invention... Milk-box..C. W. Eastwood... New York, N. Y. Feb., 1870. 1965 Accounting Rev. 40 688/1 The statements are prepared and left in the customers' milk boxes with the next milk delivery. 1981 W. Foley Back to Forest iii. 154 I was quite willing to go down to the milk-box and help him carry the bags up. 1988 J. Frame Carpathians iv. 24 Mattina went out to her milk-box to collect the full bottle. 2000 N.Y. Times 6 Apr. f12/2 The hinged top of the milk box squeaks open. Empties clink out, full ones clunk in, a routine that has almost disappeared from this country. < as lemmas |
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