| 单词 | to drive the buck |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto drive the buck 3. A quantity of clothes, cloth, or yarn, put through the process of bucking, in buckwashing or bleaching; the quantity of clothes washed at once, a ‘wash’. to lay the buck: to lay to steep in lye. to drive the buck: to carry through the process of bucking. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > clothes to be or that have been washed buck1532 wash1789 snow1811 washing1843 wash-linen1901 laundry1916 dry cleaning1930 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > wash clothes [verb (intransitive)] > by steeping or boiling to lay a buck1570 to lay the buck1570 to drive the buck1648 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 428/2 A womanne washeth a bucke of clothes. 1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 29 Maides, .iii. a clock, knede, lay your bucks, or go brew. 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 26 Being one day in the kitchen wringing out a Bucke of Cloathes. 1648 R. Herrick Cheap Laundress The laundresses, they envie her good-luck, Who can with so small charges drive the buck. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth V. 58 A Jolly brown Wench a washing of her Buck. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bucking To drive a buck of yarn, they first cover the bottom of the bucking tub with fine ashes of the ash-tree, etc. 1862 W. Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. I. 159 She can iron up an' vwold A book o' clothes wi young or wold. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone II. iv. 57 She..pointed to the great bock of wash. < as lemmas |
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