| 单词 | swine tub |
| 释义 | > as lemmasswine tub swine tub n. a tub for pigswill. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding pigs > pig's trough > tub for hogwash swine tub1554 swine skeel1559 swill-tub1575 1554 Excellent & Right Learned Medit. sig B.ii Leaue vs to our selues in the sluttish swine tubbes and dirtie dregges of idolatrie, supersticion and barborous ignoraunce. 1612 in P. C. D. Brears Yorks. Probate Inventories 1542–1689 (1972) 68 Item one old kymlin a swinetubb one old tub three hive pitches one scyve two hauer ridles. 1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. iii. 84 The inhabitants..have a custom..to make Pyes in the Form of a Swill, or Swine-Tub. 1834 Farmers' Reg. Jan. 433/2 Every sow about to pig must be well fed three times a day, with coarse meal, potatoes, garbage, &c, mixed up in the swine tub. 1978 M. Moynihan Black Bread & Barbed Wire iii. 62 ‘It was a pretty stiff time here’, he comments phlegmatically, recording how potato peelings came to be regarded as a luxury and how he was glad of the occasional chance of dipping his hands into the swine tubs. < as lemmas |
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