单词 | to go sticking |
释义 | > as lemmasto go sticking 2. English regional (chiefly east midlands). The action or activity of gathering firewood. Chiefly in to go sticking. Cf. stick v.2 5. ΚΠ a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) at Borh, Bor Let's go a sticking in the ‘Squire's plantations’. 1870 W. C. Hazlitt Brand's Pop. Antiq. Great Brit. (rev. ed.) I. 126 In parts of Huntingdonshire, the poor people go ‘sticking’, or gathering sticks for fuel in Warboy's Wood on May Day. 1975 E. Malpass House of Women vii. 88 She..went sticking for firewood after the October gales. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 292/2 Stickin', collecting firewood. < as lemmas |
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