| 单词 | sieve-witted |
| 释义 | > as lemmassieve-witted C1. General attributive, as sieve-basket, sieve-bottom, sieve-cloth, sieve-drum, sieve-fashion, sieve-frame; sieve-witted adj. ΚΠ 1598 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades Ded. sig. A 4v Our siue-witted censors, through whose braines all thinges exact and refinde, run to the earth in heapes. 1604 N. F. Fruiterers Secrets 4 They poure them out gently into their siues, or broad baskets made siue-fashion. 1686 S. Sewall Letter-bk. 33 Six doz. of Lawn sive Bottoms. 1714 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1907) XLIII. 225 Sieve Bottoms. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 215 The inverted sieve drum should fit the paste tub pretty closely. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 216 The printer seizes the block..and daubs it twice..upon the sieve cloth. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 332 The sieve-frame..is 28 inches in length and 5 inches in depth. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Sieve-bottoms, attachments for the frame of a sieve made of horse~hair or wire, etc. 1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 140 They..placed acorns in a sieve basket. < as lemmas |
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