英语词汇“pitch、kettle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

pitch-kettle

释义

ˈpitch-ˌkettle
[f. pitch n.¹ + kettle.]
A large vessel in which pitch is boiled or heated, esp. for use on board ship. Hence † pitch-kettled a. (Obs. slang), utterly puzzled, non-plussed (? as if covered with a pitch-kettle, or with heated pitch from a pitch-kettle).
1486Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 15 A pitch ketle..for the same Ship.1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. xii. 249, I..bade him heat another pitch-kettle.1754Cowper Ep. to Lloyd 32 Thus, the preliminaries settled I fairly find myself pitch-kettled.1876M. Collins From Midnight to Midn. III. vii. 92 He was just as thoroughly pitch-kettled (to use an ancient bit of slang) as any gentleman calling himself ‘Honourable’ well could be.

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