| 单词 | quern-house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquern-house quern-house n. a building in which a quern or querns are kept or operated. ΚΠ 1525 in Southwell Visit. (1891) 123 ij leads that standes in wherne-house. 1710 R. Newcourt Repertorium Ecclesiasticum II. 309 A Stable, a Quern-House, two Small Cotes to fat Fowl in. 1904 W. B. Yeats Stories Red Hanrahan (1914) 158 Brother Bald Fox, whose business it was to turn the great quern in the quern-house..was getting old. 1963 M. Barley in I. L. Foster & L. Alcock Culture & Environment 498 The quern-house..usually had a quern, or a pair of querns (singular and plural were used indifferently) for grinding malt, but other things such as cheese-press or barrels are often found there. < as lemmas |
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