| 单词 | thorn house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthorn house thorn house n. in salt-making by the graduation method, a structure in which weak brine is caused to trickle over piles or high walls of thorns and brushwood giving a large surface for evaporation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment pail1481 walling-lead1611 walma1661 Neptune1662 loot1669 ship1669 clearerc1682 cribc1682 barrow1686 hovel1686 leach-trough1686 salt-pan1708 sun pond1708 sun pan1724 scrape-pan1746 taplin1748 drab1753 room1809 thorn house1853 thorn-wall1853 fore-heater1880 pike1884 trunk1885 1853 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 654/1 [At Moutiers] There are four evaporating houses called Maisons d'Epines or thorn-houses. 1879 G. Gladstone in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 353/1 Thorn houses..are gigantic erections consisting of a skeleton of timber filled in with thorn bushes..the water trickles down over the ends of the twigs. < as lemmas |
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