“scalding、house”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

scalding-house

释义

ˈscalding-house
[f. scalding vbl. n. + house n.¹]
A room in which utensils or the carcasses of animals are scalded.
1421Cov. Leet Bk. 32 Allso-sone as the skaldyng-house..be full fynyshid and redy that they skald þer swyne in the same house.1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 920/1 In the scalding house, a yeoman and two groomes.16..Massinger, etc. Old Law iii. ii. (1656) 39 And my three Court Codlings that looke parboyld, As if they came from Cupids scalding house.1688R. Holme Armoury iv. xii. (Roxb.) 499/2 The Skalding house.1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 56 The milk-house, the scalding and pressing house, and the salting-house.
†b. fig. Euphemistically for: Hell. Obs.
1549Latimer 7th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 205 Even in the skaldinge house, in the vgsomnes of the place.Ibid. 208 You are lyke to go [to] ye Scalding house, and ther you shal haue two dishes, wepynge and gnashinge of teeth.

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