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单词 whipping side
释义

whipping side

noun Australian /NZ
The last side of a sheep to be shorn: the shearer had completed the long blow and was cleaning the head on the whipping side...
  • My shears they will go freely when I'm on the whipping side.
  • I knelt with one knee on the board and kept coming down the whipping side.
  • The whipping side of a sheep was the right-hand side, the last to be shorn.

Origin

Late 19th century: from whip (verb) in the sense 'move something fast or suddenly'.

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