Faggot
['fægət] or ['fæɡət]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot; 'faggot up the sticks'.
(verb.) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them.
(verb.) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch; 'He fagotted the blouse for his wife'.
手打:蒙塔古--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
n. a bundle of sticks for fuel fascines &c.: a stick: anything like a faggot: a bundle of pieces of iron or steel cut off into suitable lengths for welding: a soldier numbered on the muster-roll but not really existing: a voter who has obtained his vote expressly for party purposes on a spurious or sham qualification.—adj. got up for a purpose as in 'Faggot vote.'—v.t. to tie together.—ns. Fagg′oting Fag′oting a kind of embroidery in which some of the cross-threads are drawn together in the middle.
整理:劳拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Looking upwards, a furze-cutter would have been inclined to continue work; looking down, he would have decided to finish his faggot and go home. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- They were evidently intended for furze-faggot bonds which he meant to collect on his return. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Pipes in faggots. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He was busily chopping away at the furze, a long row of faggots which stretched downward from his position representing the labour of the day. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- How much do you get for cutting these faggots? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The most enduring of all--steady unaltering eyes like Planets--signified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Every individual was so involved in furze by his method of carrying the faggots that he appeared like a bush on legs till he had thrown them down. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
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