| 单词 | swine hair |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswine hair swine hair n. (also swine's hair) the hair which grows on the back and sides of a pig, esp. as a material for making brush bristles; cf. swine bristle n. ΚΠ 1567 A. Edwards Let. 16 June in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 385 Item 100, brusshes for garments, (none made of swines haire). 1696 V. Mandey & J. Moxon Mechanick-powers ix. xxiii. 235 You must take small stalks cut off from the Quils of Birds, or Horse, or Swine's hair. 1775 tr. Valuable Secrets Arts & Trades iii. 47 Make some starch with flour of rice, and lay a coat of it, as smooth as you can, on your cloth, with a stiff brush of swine's hair. 1908 Tariff Hearings (U.S. House of Representatives, 60th Congress) No. 36. 6340 A duty..for the sake of protecting, say, 433,941 pounds of soft United States swine hair not fit for 90 per cent of the usages of the United States brush maker. 2010 Star (Shelby, N. Carolina) 29 July (Business section) 1/1 Toothbrushes were made of animal bone and swine hair and the dentist mixed Novocain by hand. < as lemmas |
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