| 单词 |
lodge-pole |
| 释义 |
▪ I. lodge-pole, n. N. Amer.
1. A pole used to support a North American Indian tent.
1805M. Lewis in Lewis & Clark Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Expedition (1904) II. 88 Found a new indian lodge pole today. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. ii. 171 At night Kabibonokka..Shook the lodge-poles in his fury. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. iii. 37 The dogs were trained to drag the lodge-poles on the march. 1903A. Adams Log of Cowboy xxi. 330 He..with The Rebel went back about a mile to a thicket of lodge poles. 1946G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 242 They pulled down the lodges of three of their villages and sold the lodgepoles and lumber.
2. lodge-pole pine, a pine native to mountainous regions of north-west America, Pinus contorta var. latifolia.
1859G. A. Jackson Diary 9 Jan. in Colorado Mag. (1935) XII. 205 Cut the top off a small lodge pole pine. 1884C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 564 The forests largely composed of the lodge-pole pine..cover the outlying eastern ranges of the Rocky Mountains. 1905N.Y. Even. Post 29 Apr., The lodgepole pine..bears the common name of ‘lodgepole’ from the fact that the Indians used its long slender trunks as supports for their wigwams, or lodges. 1949Sierra Club Bull. (San Francisco) June 6 Lodgepole pines, singing birds and scampering chipmunks,..all familiar elements of the mountain scenes. 1964N.Z. News 24 Nov. 3/1 The lodgepole pine, becoming common on the Waiouru Plains and a cause of concern because of its possible spread in the South Island, is in fact a favoured species for pulping in U.S. 1972Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 23 Jan. 6/1 Amongst the lodge-pole pines and blue spruce. 1972Country Life 7 Dec. 1559/1 Foresters in Scotland can be criticized for planting an excess of sitka and Canadian lodgepole pine.
▪ II. ˈlodge-pole, v. U.S.
[f. prec.]
trans. To beat with a lodge-pole. Hence lodge-poling vbl. n.
1848G. F. A. Ruxton in Blackw. Mag. LXIV. 139 Nor are they [sc. squaws] so schooled to perfect obedience to their lords and masters as to stand a ‘lodge poling’. 1850L. H. Garrard Wah-to-Yah (1927) ix. 116 Often..their negligent spouses are lodge-poled (beaten) for such accidents. 1968Amer. Speech XLIII. 218 It was customary to discipline a squaw by lodge-poling her, and the term became figurative for any beating. |
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