| 单词 | oven-builder |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoven-builder oven-builder n. (a) a builder of ovens; (b) = ovenbird n. (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Furnariidae (oven-bird) ovenbird1839 oven-builder1839 hornero1880 1839 Civil Engin. & Archit. Jrnl. 2 238/2 John Walker, of Allen street, Surrey, Oven-builder. 1869 V. Penny Think & Act 14 Tip Kepl was the first oven-builder, though Adam has the merit of having been the first baker and cook. 1885 C. Swainson Provincial Names Brit. Birds 32 British long-tailed titmouse... Oven bird or oven builder (Stirling). 1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 3069/1 A South-American tree-creeper (Furnaria rufa), which builds an oven-shaped nest of mud or clay, is called the oven-bird (n.) or oven-builder (n.). 1997 Baker's Rev. Sept. 27/1 (advt.) We used the know-how we have collected over fifty years as oven builders. < as lemmas |
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