单词 | sprinkling machine |
释义 | > as lemmassprinkling machine C1. General attributive, as sprinkling machine, sprinkling system, sprinkling vessel, sprinkling water, etc. ΚΠ 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Num. xxxi. f. lviii It shalbe sprinkled with sprinklinge water [Ger. Sprenge wasser]. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F2 Following him with his sprinkling glasse..from place to place. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Bespruyt-kruycke, a Sprinkling, or a Spout-picher for gardens. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (ix. 9) ii. 336 There was also a sprinkling water to sprinkle on such as should be unclean. 1712 J. Henley tr. B. de Montfaucon Trav. Italy viii. 128 Ancient Instruments for Sacrificing, viz...a Box to burn Incense in, a sprinkling Vessel, a Sprinkler. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table ii. 30 A man driving a sprinkling-machine. 1896 Harper's Mag. Apr. 812/2 He..got a job at driving a sprinkling-cart. 1945 V. Ferm Encycl. Relig. 59 Sprinkling bowl used in a sacrificial service in the Jerusalem Temple, and made of copper, brass, silver, or gold. 1954 Washington Post 12 Sept. h26 An automatic sprinkling system for the yard and flower beds. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 July 12/1 The orderly geraniums..and their demure gardener are upstaged by the metal sprinkling cans in the foreground. < as lemmas |
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