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单词 rush pith
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rush pith
d. With the sense ‘of or belonging to a rush, that is a rush’, as rush bent, rush pith, rush plant, rush root, etc.
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c1475 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 20 He wulle stond the in stoure, in-toe so mycul styd. No more for thi fresun, then for a rysche rote.
1766 C. Varlo Treat. Agric. (new ed.) II. xiii. 79 As the heath and rush roots &c. is very tough, the first plough must have a wider brick than that which follows.
1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 574/1 A rush-pith electrometer.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 137 Quick the rush-bent fann'd away, As they danc'd and bounded through.
1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 419 A better light than the rush-pith burnt by English peasants twenty or thirty years since.
1905 Womanhood 13 74 Hardly any storm is so fierce as to drive them [sc. snow buntings] south, provided the snow lies not so deep as to bury all the long grasses and rush plants.
1980 Jrnl. Manx Mus. No. 89. 23/1 These lengths of rush-pith dipped in tallow were very fragile.
1997 Boston Globe (Nexis) 17 July f1 (caption) Volunteer Helga Andrews sorts out rush roots at the New England Wild Flower Society's Garden of Rare and Endangered Plants.
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