| 单词 | walk-around |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswalk-around walk-around n. (a) U.S. a dance in which the participants go round in a large circle; a song or piece of music to accompany such a dance (now historical); †(b) Caribbean a kind of rotary mill turned by oxen (obsolete rare). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > other types of mill water corn mill1327 watermill1371 quern mill1590 water grist mill1636 tide-mill1640 parish mill1676 whin-mill1793 roller mill1828 saddle quern1867 walk-around1869 kibbler1882 1869 Atlantic Monthly July 72/2 In company with others [I] performed the Virginia Walk-around. 1886 Colonial & Indian Exhib.: Official Catal. (ed. 2) 462 Their sugar plots are confined to one or two small green pieces in Tortola, worked by a ‘walk-around’ or cattle-mill. 1888 B. Matthews Pen & Ink 153 ‘Dixie’ was composed in 1859, by Mr. Dan D. Emmett, as a ‘walk-around’ for Bryant's minstrels. 1956 J. Barth Floating Opera xxviii. 276 The Wonderful Panithiopliconica, it turned out, was not more nor less than a grand old-fashioned minstrel walk-around. 1990 Amer. Music 8 450 Syncopated melodies of cake-walks, walk-arounds, ‘coon songs’, and ragtime. < as lemmas |
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