hammercloth

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The cloth that covers a coachbox. archaic,historical
    — Nevertheless, a hackney-coachman, who seemed to have as many capes to his greasy great-coat as he was years old, packed me up in his coach and hemmed me in with a folding and jingling barrier of steps, as if he were going to take me fifty miles. His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth motheaten into rags, was quite a work of time.

词形变化

hammercloths plural

词源

Probably from Dutch hemel (“heaven, canopy, tester”) (akin to German Himmel, and perhaps also to English heaven) + cloth; or perhaps a corruption of hamper cloth.
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