| 单词 | sweat-box |
| 释义 | > as lemmassweat-box sweat-box n. (a) a narrow cell in which a prisoner is confined (slang); also U.S., a room in which a prisoner undergoes intensive questioning (see quot. 1931); (b) a box in which hides are sweated; (c) a large box in which figs are placed to undergo a ‘sweat’; (d) transferred and figurative, spec. a heated compartment in which perspiration is induced, to encourage weight loss, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > tools for preparing fruit or nuts nutcracker1481 nut-crack1570 nutcrackers1600 crackera1640 crack-nut1656 orange-strainer1688 apple scoop1696 orange-peel cutter1757 apple corer1778 lemon-squeezer1781 corer1789 orange squeezer1815 seeder1865 sweat-box1870 reamer1894 stemmer1898 juicer1938 zester1963 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > [noun] > intensive questioning > place for sweat-box1870 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > cell houseOE cabinc1522 hole1535 lodging1612 hold1717 cell1728 lock-up room1775 glory-hole1825 box1834 drum1846 sweat-box1870 booby-hutch1889 Peter1890 booby1899 boob1908 flowery dell1925 slot1947 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > place for bathing > bath-house > hot bathroom or sweating-room stovec1485 sudatory1615 laconicum1696 laconic1742 sweating-room1744 caldarium1753 sudatorium1757 steam1801 sudarium1852 sauna1881 sweat-lodge1887 sweat-box1974 1870 U.S. Navy Gen. Orders & Circulars (1887) 97 He was..gagged and confined in a sweat-box of such dimensions that it was impossible to sit down. 1888 W. B. Churchward ‘Blackbirding’ in S. Pacific 28 This sweat-box is a sort of cell in the lowest part of the ship, pitch dark, and hot as hell. 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang Sweat-box, the cell where prisoners are confined on arrest previous to being brought up for examination before the magistrate. 1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 345 When sympathetic visitors crowded around his sweatbox. 1897 Chicago Tribune 10 July 1/4 The upper gallery commonly known as the ‘sweat box’ in regular theaters. 1900 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 94 After the figs were dried they were placed in sweat boxes holding about 200 pounds each, where they were allowed to remain for two weeks, to pass through a sweat. 1901 ‘J. Flynt’ World of Graft 102 He was copped out on suspicion. They put him in the sweat-box, made him cough, an' you know the rest. 1931 Z. Chafee et al. in Rep. Nat. Comm. Law Observance & Enforcement (U.S.) ii. 38 The original ‘sweat box’ used during the period following the Civil War..was a cell in close proximity to a stove, in which a scorching fire was built and fed with old bones, pieces of rubber shoes, etc., all to make great heat and offensive smells, until the sickened and perspiring inmate of the cell confessed in order to get released. 1973 ‘H. Howard’ Highway to Murder ii. 28 I ought to stick you in the sweat box until you told me the name of your client. 1974 J. Engelhard Horsemen vi. 38 I never go in a sweatbox... I lose all the weight I want playing tennis. < as lemmas |
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