单词 | kartel |
释义 | ‖ kartel|ˈkɑːt(ə)l| Also cartel, cartle. [S. African Dutch; app. ad. Pg. catel, catle, catre ‘little bed’, according to Schuchardt (Kreol. Stud. IX. 119), a South Indian word, Tamil kattil bedstead, adopted and diffused by the Portuguese.] The wooden bed or hammock, in a South African ox-wagon.
1880P. Gillmore On Duty 275 The worthy missionary had his waggon brought in front of the porch, swung a cartle in it, and made my bed there. 1883Olive Schreiner Story Afr. Farm ii. xii. (1887) 276 Next day Gregory carried her..to the waggon... As he laid her down on the ‘kartel’ she looked far out across the plain. 1885Rider Haggard K. Solomon's Mines iii. (1887) 42 In this after part was a hide ‘cartle’ or bed. 1910J. Buchan Prester John viii. 151, I..flung my kaross on the cartel which did duty as a bed. |

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