| 单词 |
bird-nesting |
| 释义 |
ˈbird's-ˌnesting, bird-nesting, vbl. n. [f. bird's nest n. + -ing1; cf. nutting.] 1. a. The action or occupation of searching for bird's-nests.
1772Barrington in Phil. Trans. LXII. 314 note, Birds-nesting is confined almost entirely to hedges, and low shrubs. 1806Duncan Nelson 9 He..went out a bird's-nesting. 1881Macm. Mag. XLIV. 347 Where is the schoolboy who has not a strong love for bird-nesting? b. attrib. and ppl. a.
1848Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. 273 A man..whose bird-nesting days were spent in the woods near Gifford. 1859Helps Friends in C., Ser. ii. II. viii. 157 Not that he is a birds'-nesting boy. 2. Furring of a passage.
1901Daily Mail 26 Aug. 3/5 The cap ferrules of the Minerva's tubes were found to be partially choked from ‘bird-nesting’. 1930Engineering 9 May 597/3 To overcome the trouble of ‘birdnesting’ originally experienced in the lower rows of boiler tubes. |

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