| 单词 | powder-post |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspowder-post powder-post n. chiefly U.S. the powder of worm-eaten wood; (also) the damaged condition of wood reduced to powder by boring larvae; occasionally figurative; cf. powder of post n. at Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [noun] > a medicine or medicament > worthless or quack empiric?a1425 empirical1656 powder of post1662 powder-post1790 snake oil1831 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless hawc1000 turdc1275 fille1297 dusta1300 lead1303 skitc1330 naught1340 vanityc1340 wrakea1350 rushc1350 dirt1357 fly's wing1377 goose-wing1377 fartc1390 chaff?a1400 nutshella1400 shalec1400 yardc1400 wrack1472 pelfrya1529 trasha1529 dreg1531 trish-trash1542 alchemy1547 beggary?1548 rubbish1548 pelfa1555 chip1556 stark naught1562 paltry?1566 rubbish1566 riff-raff1570 bran1574 baggage1579 nihil1579 trush-trash1582 stubblea1591 tartar1590 garbage1592 bag of winda1599 a cracked or slit groat1600 kitchen stuff1600 tilta1603 nothing?1608 bauble1609 countera1616 a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620 buttermilk1630 dross1632 paltrement1641 cattle1643 bagatelle1647 nothingness1652 brimborion1653 stuff1670 flap-dragon1700 mud1706 caput mortuuma1711 snuff1778 twaddle1786 powder-post1790 traffic1828 junk1836 duffer1852 shice1859 punk1869 hogwash1870 cagmag1875 shit1890 tosh1892 tripe1895 dreck1905 schlock1906 cannon fodder1917 shite1928 skunk1929 crut1937 chickenshit1938 crud1943 Mickey Mouse1958 gick1959 garbo1978 turd1978 pants1994 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material > worm-eaten state > powder of a worm-eaten post powder-post1790 1790 S. Deane New-Eng. Farmer 151/1 The smaller kind [of timber worm] eats only the sappy part of the wood, turning it to what is vulgarly called powder-post. 1845 S. Judd Margaret ii. vii. 313 The grubs of the law have gnawed into us, and we are all powder-post. 1863 D. G. Mitchell My Farm of Edgewood 83 A wild, sweeping, gallant blaze..wrapped old powder-post timbers in its roar. 1927 Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric. No. 1490. 7 Powder post is that class of defects in which the larvae of insects reduce the wood fibers of seasoned or partially seasoned wood to a powderlike condition. 2003 Assoc. Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 13 May [They] discovered powder post damage in the house, caused by insects in the wood. < as lemmas |
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