英语词汇“haystack”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

haystack

释义

haystack|ˈheɪstæk|
[f. hay n.¹]
a. A stack or large pile of hay built in the open air, of regular form and finished off with a pointed or ridged top. to look for a needle in a haystack: see needle n. 1 c.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 725/32 Hic arconius, a haystak.1555Eden Decades 351 The myddlemost is lyke a heye stacke.1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 73/1 A Hay Stack is..shaped broad at the bottom and narrow at the top.1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. vi. (1872) 205 If these rats meet a haystack, they eat their way through it.
b. attrib. and Comb., as haystack roof; haystack boiler, an old tall form of steam-boiler somewhat like a haystack in shape.
1855F. Chamier My Travels I. iii. 42 A large white house, with a kind of haystack red roof.

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