| 单词 | stretching-board |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstretching-board stretching-board n. (a) a board used to lie upon in callisthenic exercises; (b) a flat board upon which a corpse is laid out before being placed in a coffin; (c) Leather Manufacturing = stretch-bench n. at stretch v. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying out > board on which stretching-board1825 stretcher1850 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific systems > equipment stretching-board1825 society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for stretching hides or leather softening iron1839 stretcher1839 stock-stone1875 stretcher-bar1883 stretch-bench1897 stretching-board1976 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Streik Streiking-Burd, Stretching-Burd, the board on which a dead body is stretched, before the animal heat is gone. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iv, in Fraser's Mag. June 727/2 Who knows but at that moment Lady Bell was at work with a pair of her dumb namesakes, and Lady Sophy lying flat on a stretching-board? 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xiii. 245 He had become as true a corpse as the one whose stretching board he had usurped. 1976 T. Walker Spatsizi v. 47 He taught me how to skin, showing me how to turn the hides fur side out before they were quite dry and then pull them back on the stretching board. < as lemmas |
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