| 单词 | cockspur |
| 例句 | The shape and general appearance of this tube has procured for it, among the workmen, the name of the "cockspur" burner. Gas Burners Old and New 2011-11-07T02:00:20.003Z All the year long the cockspur thorn is a beautiful, ornamental tree and a competent hedge plant, popular alike in Europe and America. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z These props have fanciful names, such as "spurs," "stilts," "cockspurs," etc. Makers of Many Things In the way of fruit-bearing shade trees he recommends sugar maple, flowering dogwood, white and cockspur thorn, native red mulberry, tupelo, black cherry, choke cherry, and mountain ash. The Bird Study Book He used two types of burners, the Argand and the cockspur. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization But to whomsoever is due the credit of its invention, certain is it that the batswing burner was a considerable improvement upon the old cockspur. Gas Burners Old and New 2011-11-07T02:00:20.003Z The cockspur thorn is a small, handsome tree, fifteen to twenty feet high, with stiff branches in a broad round head. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z There was a bush resembling our hawthorn, which, on examination, proved to be the cockspur hawthorn, with fruit as large as cherries, pulpy, and of a pleasant tartness not much unlike to tamarinds. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America And who wants your old strip of sand and cockspurs? The Purple Heights It was somewhat more efficient than the cockspur burner. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization The size of the flame being, in comparison with that of the cockspur, so much larger proportionately to the metal burner, the cooling effect of the latter was not so apparent. Gas Burners Old and New 2011-11-07T02:00:20.003Z The little lady hath no shoon, no skirt that holds together, save by the grace of cockspur thorns that bind the tatters. The Hidden Children When Australia was first colonised, any sensible man might have foreboded sorrel, cockspur, Scotch thistle, &c., as unwelcome, but unavoidable, adjuncts of settlement. Such Is Life Large plains, with thorny jungles and bushes of the long cockspur thorn interspersed, formed the character of the ground. The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon |
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