| 单词 | pin bush |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspin bush pin bush n. †(a) a reaming or polishing tool for small holes, delicate metalwork, etc. (obsolete); (b) Australian any of various shrubs or trees of the genera Hakea (family Proteaceae) and Acacia (family Mimosaceae ( Leguminosae)), with spiny or pointed leaves or phyllodes. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > [noun] > smoothing or polishing > for metal agate1728 lap1881 pin busha1884 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 682/1 Pin Bush, a reaming or polishing tool for pin holes. 1888 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 3 518 Hakea leucoptera..‘Needle bush’, ‘Pin bush’. Good drinking water is got from the fleshy-roots of this bush in the arid districts in which it grows. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 7 June 25/2 Pin bush..will grow in poor soils. < as lemmas |
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