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单词 skimming-dish
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skimming-dishn.

Etymology: skimming n. Compounds 1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskimming-dish.
1.
a. A dish suitable for skimming with; esp. one used in skimming milk or in cheese-making.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > formation of cheese > separating whey > instrument for
cheese ladder1598
wheying cloth1660
skimming-dish1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 333/1 A little broad flat Dish made of Wood, called by Dairy Women a Scimming Dish.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 3 Aug. 2/1 Who on her Skimming-Dish carves her Name.
1785 W. W. Pepys in Roberts Mem. Han. More (1835) I. 384 To send you a skimming-dish,..towards setting-up housekeeping.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1017 The operator stirs up the unbroken curd from the bottom with the skimming-dish.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ix. 186 Have you become an amateur of damp quarries and skimming-dishes?
b. figurative. Something comparable to a skimming-dish in respect of shallowness.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > shallowness > [noun] > type of something shallow
scale-disha1642
skimmy-dish1825
skimming-dish1861
1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner x. 149 The adherents of the inexplicable, more than hinted that their antagonists were..mere skimming-dishes in point of depth.
1885 Sat. Rev. 3 Jan. 11/1 The Englishman not inaptly calls the American's boat a ‘skimming dish’.
c. U.S. A shallow yacht-built type of boat used on the coast of Florida.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > pleasure vessel > [noun] > yacht > types of yacht
steam-yacht1812
skimmer1844
schooner-yacht1876
cruiser1879
keel1883
skimming-dish1884
cutter-yacht1885
bulb-keel1893
keel-boat1893
forty1894
half-rater1894
forty-tonner1895
one-designer1897
raceabout1897
forty-footer1902
sonder1907
star1911
tonnage-cheater1912
scow1929
tabloid1930
Yngling1969
maxi yacht1974
1884 J. A. Henshall Camping in Florida ii. 15 The boats are..of light draught and center-boarders. There are the ‘skimming-dish’, the ‘pumpkin-seed’ and the ‘flat~iron’ models.
2. attributive in †skimming-dish hat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > shallow
skimming-dish hat1766
shallow1795
1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy I. vi. 99 That unshaken patriot still appears in the same..skimming-dish hat, and slit sleeve.
1773 J. Berridge Christian World Unmasked 226 A dozen skimming dish hats, such as the gentry wear.
1855 Willis's Current Notes V. 58/2 The Skimming-Dish Hat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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