| 单词 | train-oil lamp |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrain-oil lamp General attributive, as train-oil lamp, train-oil man, etc. ΚΠ 1704 W. King Remarks Tale of Tub 13 The Brewer, the Soap-boiler, the Train-oil-man, were all affronted at it. 1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 145/1 A train-oil Prince Potemkin (or something like him, for accounts are dubious). 1842 R. Browning Pied Piper of Hamelin in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics vii A drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks. 1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. vii. 36 Candles or train-oil lamps were burning in most..houses. 1909 D. Ellis Outl. Bacteriol. xvii. 227 A fishy or train-oil flavour is an evil that butter-makers have to fight against. 1916 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 182 511 With train oil lamps and moulded tapers man might mitigate the evening's gloom. 2009 M. Weissenbacher Sources Power xxvi. 363 Ten years later [sc. 1856] U.S. annual production of spermaceti had reached some five million gallons, and train oil production some eight million gallons. < as lemmas |
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