| 单词 | pine box |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspine box pine box n. (a) a box made of pine; (b) figurative a coffin; cf. pine overcoat n. ΚΠ 1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 1 Feb. in Winter in West (1835) I. 295 Our sleigh [was] a low clumsy pine box on a pair of ox-runners. 1846 Defiance (Ohio) Democrat 13 Aug. You can see that cart moving slowly at his heels; that cart in which crouches a grim figure, sitting on a pine box. 1890 N. P. Langford Vigilante Days II. xxv. 441 A company of twenty or more men approaching the station, bearing in their midst a long pine box. 1895 D. Belasco Heart of Maryland i. 181 Emotion's a very fine thing—but curb it, if you don't want to fill a pine box like that fellow you saw hanged at Middletown. 1926 E. E. Cummings Is 5 v. 64 Lift the poor cuss tenderly..and send him home to his old mother in a nice new pine box. 1993 Guardian (Nexis) 24 June 17 The only people we can't help are already in pine boxes. 1993–4 TLC for Plants Winter 51/3 (advt.) A rustic pine box..is a perfect foil for the delicate blossoms of paperwhite narcissus. < as lemmas |
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