单词 | misery whip |
释义 | > as lemmasmisery whip misery whip n. North American colloquial a whipsaw. ΚΠ 1930 G. Williams Logger-talk 26 Misery whip, a cross cut saw. 1977 S. Jones Oregon Folklore 14 In the case of loggers, not only do they know what a crosscut saw is.., they also know that same item as a misery whip or a Swede's fiddle. 1995 Vancouver Sun 6 Sept. a11 There were Coolie Tongs and misery whips, Gilchrist jacks and pickeroos, tools I hadn't seen since my dad hand-felled spruce for Muir Brothers Saw Mill when I was the same age as my little girl. < as lemmas |
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