单词 | scrub-cutter |
释义 | > as lemmasscrub-cutter scrub-cutter n. Australian and New Zealand (a) a machine for cutting scrub; (b) one who cuts scrub. ΚΠ 1886 R. Stout Notes Progress N.Z. 28 The following..are manufactured in the colony—viz., ploughs, chaff-cutters..disc-harrows..scrub-cutters. a1930 H. Stone in Austral. Short Stories (1951) 115 But them scrub-cutters... They do need constant watchin. 1937 J. West Sheep Kings ix. 87 He purchased a new block of bush land, and employed another gang of men to break it in—timber-men and scrub-cutters and post-splitters. 1965 M. Shadbolt Among Cinders xxii. 210 Probably the place had been built by scrub-cutters. < as lemmas |
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