Hills Hoist

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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rotary clothes line with adjustable height by means of a rotating handle. Australia
    — A Hills Hoist was set into the concrete. It was covered with a lush choko vine. Hazel always claimed the Hills Hoist was the perfect plant support. “If you want to do some pruning, you just wind it up and spin it round.”

词形变化

Hills Hoists plural Hills hoist alternative

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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