单词 | skimming-dish |
释义 | skimming-dishn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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