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单词 wire-caged
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wire-caged
b. Parasynthetic and instrumental, as wire-bound, wire-caged, wire-covered, wire-framed, wire-hung, wire-mended, wire-rimmed, wire-sewn, etc., adjs.
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c1824 L. Hunt World of Bks., My Bks. (1899) 20 With books all in Museum order, especially wire-safed.
1832 S. Waring Minstrelsy of Woods 121 A pair of bullfinches had long lived together in captivity, and appeared to..sojourn happily in their little wire-bound dwelling.
1856 ‘The Druid’ Post & Paddock ii. 38 That springy wire-hung action, which..distinguishes the stock of the great ‘Rawcliffe Horse’.
1861 All Year Round 6 Apr. 31/2 Each table has a little wire-covered cage in one corner.
1871 G. MacDonald Manchester Poem in Roadside Poems xiv. 17 The dark bird..which hangs wire-caged.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 156 Wire sewn, books sewn with wire instead of thread.
1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 318/1 A padlock with a wire-mended chain.
1907 H. Wyndham Flare of Footlights vi Wire-guarded gas brackets.
1910 Daily Chron. 11 Mar. 6/4 Then why could not the coverts be wire-netted from March to October?
1971 S. Hill Strange Meeting i. 28 The sound of the man sleeping above him in the wire-framed bunk.
1998 Making Music Apr. 13/3 Two strings, wire-covered cat-gut.
2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 372/1 He's wearing wire-rimmed eyeglasses.
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