| 单词 | turnspit dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturnspit dog turnspit dog n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > that turns mill or spit mill dog1402 turnspit1576 turnspit cur1603 turnspit dog1625 turnspit terrier1857 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. iv. 81 Turne-spit dogs labouring in their wheeles. 1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 100 Seeing one of the Turn-spit Dogs bask himself deliciously in the Sun. 1845 W. Youatt Dog ii. 18 Colonel Sykes says..among the pariahs is frequently found the turnspit-dog. turnspit dog 1. A dog kept to turn the roasting-spit by running within a kind of tread-wheel connected with it; a turnspit dog. Also fig. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dogs used for specific purposes > [noun] > that turns mill or spit mill dog1402 turnspit1576 turnspit cur1603 turnspit dog1625 turnspit terrier1857 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 35 A certaine dogge..when any meate is to bee roasted they go into a wheele..turning rounde about with the waight of their bodies... Whom the popular sort herevpon call Turnespets. 1673 M. Stevenson Norfolk Drollery 13 (title) Vpon a Dog call'd Fudle, turnspit at the Popinjay in Norwich. 1793 E. D. Clarke Tour S. Eng. iv. 215 Dogs are universally used, in this part of the world, as turnspits. 1801 G. Hanger Life II. 246 These turnspits, who, in the metaphysical wheel, turn the spit of conjecture. 1863 Jesse in R. Chambers Bk. of Days 8 Apr. I. 490/1 His two turn~spits..were long-bodied, crook-legged, and ugly dogs. < as lemmas |
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