| 单词 | birch bark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbirch bark birch bark n. the bark of a birch-tree (also attributive); (U.S.) a birch-bark canoe. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] > bark, sap, or seed-pod bitumen1551 bobbinc1562 birch bark1643 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > vessels of primitive construction > [noun] > canoe of indigenous peoples > bark bark canoe1725 north canoe1799 northern canoea1821 woodskin1825 birch1864 birch bark1868 cascara1882 1643 R. Williams Key into Lang. Amer. 67 Others make slighter doores of Burch or Chestnut barke. 1674 J. Josselyn Two Voy. New Eng. 27 An Indian-Pinnace..made of Birch-bark. 1759 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XIX. 190 He found 5 Indians Connoes of burch Bark. 1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 97 The materials [of the nest were] moss, worsted, and birch bark. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 224 He..provided several strips of birch-bark. a1800 Spirit of Farmer's Museum (1801) 244 With panniers..laden with birch bark boxes. c1805 J. J. Henry Campaign against Quebec (1812) 29 The birch-bark canoe is the most ingenious piece of mechanism. 1829 J. MacTaggart Three Years in Canada II. 54 Thus we can run a rapid of the Rideau River with a birch~bark canoe heavily laden. 1837 Southern Lit. Messenger 3 733 Along the shore were Indian lodges, of a conical form, and covered with birch bark. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xxiii. 214 To float in birch-bark canoes on..free waters! 1853 S. Moodie Life in Clearings 16 The old bishop was crossing the Rice Lake in a birch bark canoe. 1868 F. Whymper Trav. Alaska 212 Birch-barks are..easily navigated. 1902 S. E. White Conjuror's House ii. 16 As the swift rush of the birch-barks brought them almost to their journey's end, they burst..into whoops of delight. 1903 S. E. White Forest x. 128 This birch-bark package contains maple sugar. 1927 E. V. Gordon Introd. Old Norse 225 They used birch-bark for leggings. < as lemmas |
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