| 单词 | silkgut |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilk-gut d. In singular. The silken fibre obtained from the intestines of the silkworm. (In full silkworm gut, silk-gut.) Chiefly used in the making of fishing tackle.The worm, when about to spin, is killed and put into vinegar, then pulled in two, and the ‘gut’ is drawn out to a thin thread and dried. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > gut > types of catgut1599 whale-guts1780 silkworm gut1833 gut1834 whipcord1880 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 16 Where I procured some hanks of gut..My fishing companions did not know that each filum of gut is a drawn-out silkworm just before it is about to weave its cocoon. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1115 Silkworm gut, for angling. 1872 F. Francis Bk. Angling (ed. 3) xiii. 428 Tying threads of gut together for lines. 1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. v. ii. §1. 309 It is generally made of pieces of gut, knotted together, and altogether comprising a length of from three to eight feet. 1899 Speaker 9 Sept. 260/2 At every cast the gut had fallen upon the water like a streak of lightning. silk-gut silk-gut n. the gut in the silkworm from which the silk is produced. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Bombycidae > genus Bombyx > silk moth > caterpillar of bombyx mori or silkworm > gut silk-gut1839 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1115 The rest of the entrails resembles boiled spinage, and therefore can occasion no mistake as to the silk-gut. < as lemmas |
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