| 单词 | toddy-cutter |
| 释义 | > as lemmastoddy-cutter toddy-cutter n. (chiefly in the Pacific Islands) a person who harvests toddy from palms. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > toddy-gatherer toddy man1698 toddy-drawer1791 toddy-cutter1839 toddy tapper1882 1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 339 Persons..called by the English sailors ‘toddy-cutters’, are employed..for obtaining the juice of the cocoa nut tree. a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) iv. vi. 360 Nothing is more common in that hour and place than the jubilant carol of the toddy-cutter, swinging high overhead, beholding below him the narrow ribbon of the isle. 2000 G. Slatter tr. G. Koch Songs of Tuvalu xv. 68 This song was probably composed before 1870 for the marriage of the expert toddy-cutter Tavai. < as lemmas |
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