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2025-07-28

“water-butt”的英英意思

单词 water-butt
释义 ˈwater-butt
A large open-headed cask set up on end to receive the rain-water from a roof.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §448 Water-butt and stand.1835Dickens Sk. Boz, Early Coaches, The water is ‘coming in’ in every area, the pipes have burst, the water-butts are running over.1849C. Brontë Shirley xxxii, A woman as round and big as our largest water-butt.1873Miss Thackeray Wks. (1891) I. 70 George jumped out of window on to the water-butt, to see what was the matter.
b. A contemptuous epithet for a teetotaller.
1898Daily News 4 May 6/6 Scoffing comrades couldn't call him a waterbutt or a milksop.
“water-butt”的英英意思

 

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