单词 | spelling-book |
释义 | ˈspelling-book [spelling vbl. n.2] A book designed to teach spelling.
1677T. Lye (title), New Spelling-Book. 1712Steele Spect. No. 296 ⁋1 By the Assistance of a Spelling-Book it's legible. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1733) I. 332 Buried alive in their hall under a great heap of primers and spelling-books. c1775Johnson in Boswell (Oxf. ed.) I. 30 Tom Brown..published a spelling-book, and dedicated it to the Universe. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 7 Superintending the different exercises of the needle, the spelling-book, and the slate. 1852C. W. Hoskyns Talpa xx. (1854) 177 Nature is a schoolmaster that teaches without spelling-books. attrib.1771Luckombe Hist. Printing 270 [The hyphen] has given employment..to a number of Spelling-Book-Authors. 1835Macaulay in Trevelyan Compet. Wallah (1864) 421 They designate the education which their opponents recommend as a mere spelling-book education. |

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