| 单词 |
mudding |
| 释义 |
mudding, vbl. n.|ˈmʌdɪŋ|
[f. mud v.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of making muddy.
1632Sherwood, A mudding, beraying with, or sticking in mudde, embourbement, enfangement. 1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 179 The mudding of their purest Fountaine. 1895H. P. Robinson in Forum (N.Y.) Jan. 528 The mudding of the stream in æsop's fable.
b. The filling of cracks in the walls of a house or log-cabin with mud. Canad.
1898F. Russell Explor. Far North 2 The autumnal ‘mudding’ was poorly done. 1965E. L. Myles Emperor of Peace River ii. iii. 209 On the exterior of the logs treatment was a must if the rooms were to be warm in winter. This treatment consisted of an annual ‘mudding’, the forcing into the chinks between the logs of a mixture of mud and straw.
2. A jocular term for: Plastic work, modelling.
1892Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker 6 ‘The daubs are mine—and his; the mudding mine.’ ‘Mudding? What is that?’ asked Havens. ‘These bronzes,’ replied Dodd. |
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