“moulin”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

moulin

释义

▪ I. ‖ moulin|mulɛ̃|
[F. moulin, lit. a mill.
The term is suggested in sense 1 by the swirling motion of the water as it falls down the shaft.]
1. A nearly vertical circular well or shaft in a glacier, formed by the surface water falling through a crack in the ice, and gradually scooping out a deep chasm.
1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xxv. 363 These moulins occur only at those parts of the glacier which are not much rent by fissures.1889G. F. Wright Ice Age N. Amer. 19 Neither moulins nor regular dirt-bands are present.
2. A kitchen utensil used for grinding food or reducing it to pulp. (See mill n.¹ 2 a.)
1959Listener 17 Dec. 1095/1 Put it through a sieve, or a moulin à legumes.1962Harper's Bazaar Aug. 37 Black pepper freshly ground from the moulin.1966‘K. Nicholson’ Hook, Line & Sinker viii. 92 In the kitchen Mrs. Chilperic..was urging the apple sauce through the moulin.
▪ II. moulin
var. moolin Sc.

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