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单词 tobacco-box
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tobacco-boxn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: toˈbacco-box.
1. A box for holding tobacco, esp. a small flat box to be carried in the pocket.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > container for tobacco
tobacco-box1601
tobacco-pouch1687
spleuchan1787
caddy1883
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love i. i. sig. B2 Pray Ioue the perfum'd Courtiers keepe their Casting-bottles..from you, or our more ordinary Gallants their Tabaco-boxes . View more context for this quotation
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 100 A Tobacco box with a Burning Glasse.
1859 F. W. Fairholt Tobacco iv. 229 The old brass tobacco-box was generally oblong, and contained all the smoker required... There is a horn tobacco-box preserved in London.
2. Local name for two North American fishes, from their flattened shape: (a) a species of skate or ray, Raia erinacea; (b) the common sunfish, Lepomis gibbosus, or other species of Lepomis ( Cent. Dict.).
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the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Hypotremata > [noun] > family Rajidae > miscellaneous types
miller1620
white horse1686
friar-skate1811
thornback skate1875
tobacco-box1877
blonde ray1925
rajiform1976
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Lepomis (sun-fish)
bream1634
roach1637
sunfish1685
round robin1709
yellowbelly1775
redbelly1791
brim1795
sun perch1804
pumpkin seed1815
sunny1835
bluegill1877
redbreast1877
tobacco-box1877
red-eared sunfish1889
shell-cracker1889
sun1896
redear1931
1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer i. 379 Black Perch, sometimes called ‘tobacco-box’; found in ponds.
1903 Outing Apr. 134/1 He is content to lure to the surface..the ‘sunny’, ‘tobacco box’, or ‘pumpkin seed’.
1913 A. Douglas Fast Nine 150 The commonest and smallest skate of the Eastern coast of the United States is the ‘Tobacco Box’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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