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单词 stiff-land
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stiff-land
a. Collocations forming phrases used attributively, as stiff-arm, stiff-brim, stiff-clay, stiff-land, stiff-leg, stiff-mud, stiff-plate.
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1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 24 I will not manure a stiff-land Meadow in winter.
1884 C. T. Davis Pract. Treat. Manuf. Bricks (1889) 184 Stiff-clay bricks, or stiff-mud bricks as they are generally termed.
1896 ‘M. Twain’ in Harper's Mag. Aug. 356/1 It was the first season anybody wore that kind—a black stiff-brim stove-pipe.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 7 Mar. 11/1 The boiler in English locomotives is invariably carried on a stiff-plate frame.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 25 Aug. 4/2 It..is a sort of stiff-arm punch which returns the ball very close to the net.
1930 Engineering 10 Oct. 449/2 The material—sand and gravel—was..unloaded by means of a stiff-leg derrick.
1932 W. Faulkner Light in August ii. 27 He wore a tie and a stiffbrim straw hat that was quite new.
1943 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Nov. 6/3 The tower was first welded together on the ground. It was then lifted into its foundation by heavy lines attached to two high especially built ‘stiff-leg’ cranes.
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