| 单词 | rippling comb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrippling comb rippling comb n. = ripple-comb n. ΚΠ c1350Riplingcombe [see main sense]. 1567 in P. A. Kennedy Notts. Househ. Inventories (1512–62) (1962) 115 7 chesfattes 2 mands a replen come a woollcome. 1777 Whole Proc. Jockey & Maggy (rev. ed.) ii. 10 They prapet up the bed wi' a rake and rippling kame, the bearers being broken. 1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 428 He claw'd her wi' the ripplin-kame. 1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 375 Four men, with two rippling-combs, will take the seed off rather more than an acre in the day. 1905 Times 21 Jan. 7/6 When nearly ripe the flax is plucked up by the roots..and ‘rippled’ or combed of its roots and seeds by drawing the bundled stalks through the iron teeth of the rippling comb. 2001 L. Ulrich Age of Homespun viii. 283 A rippling comb and a hetchel looked much alike. < as lemmas |
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