Hills Hoist

短语

发音

AU

词形变化

Hills Hoists 复数 Hills Hoists

别名

Hills hoist

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A rotary clothes line with adjustable height by means of a rotating handle.

    澳大利亚

    2002, Meanjin, Volume 61, Melbourne University Press, page 165, I watched them glistening over the tiled rooftops and Hills hoists and waited, in awe, for the shadow to reach our Lower Templestowe back yard.

词源

From genitive of Hill (“a surname”) (with elided apostrophe) + hoist (“lift”); from the trade name of the product manufactured from 1945 by Lance Hill of Adelaide, South Australia.

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