| 单词 | vegetable knife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvegetable knife (a) General attributive (in sense 3), as vegetable farm, vegetable knife, vegetable shop, vegetable tray, etc.Cf. also vegetable adj. 4a. ΚΠ 1809 Morning Post 17 May Vegetable trays, forks, skewers, snuffers, spoons, &c. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris xi. 223 Two men, whom I observed playing at piquet in an open vegetable shop. 1847 London Jrnl. 30 406 There may be danger that the contents of the vegetable compartment might freeze. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf ix. 91 A dirk as lean and cruel-looking as Thomas Mugridge's vegetable knife. 1943 Life 13 Dec. 58/2 One politician who..denounced the OPA for..not raising livestock prices, vegetable prices and fish prices. 1969 R. R. Fagen Transformation Polit. Culture in Cuba 170 An area that before the revolution had contained a number of large vegetable farms. 1982 F. L. Carsten War against War iv. 76 Food shops and vegetable barrows were plundered and shop windows smashed. 2011 R. Stokes Good Man's Daughter xxvii. 181 A pig grunted as it nosed through some discarded vegetable peelings. < as lemmas |
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