英语词汇“to set to the wind”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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To set to the wind

c. To set to the wind: (a) passive of a weathervane, to turn to the wind; (b) transitive in leather-manufacture (see quot. 1885).

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1881 L. Linton My Love III. i. 18 The vane of the pretty widow's humour was set to another wind.

1885 A. Watt Leather Manuf. xxviii. 354 The finishing, which is called by the trade ‘setting out’, or setting to the wind. Place the shaved calf skins in a tub with weak liquor or water for at least twenty-four hours; then they are taken out and laid with their sides turned in, rolled up, or set to the wind in a cask, in a circle around it, and in the middle.

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单词	to set to the wind
释义	> as lemmas To set to the wind c. To set to the wind: (a) passive of a weathervane, to turn to the wind; (b) transitive in leather-manufacture (see quot. 1885). ΚΠ 1881 L. Linton My Love III. i. 18 The vane of the pretty widow's humour was set to another wind. 1885 A. Watt Leather Manuf. xxviii. 354 The finishing, which is called by the trade ‘setting out’, or setting to the wind. Place the shaved calf skins in a tub with weak liquor or water for at least twenty-four hours; then they are taken out and laid with their sides turned in, rolled up, or set to the wind in a cask, in a circle around it, and in the middle. extracted from setv.¹ < as lemmas
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