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drysalter

/drahy-sawl-ter/US // ˈdraɪˌsɔl tər //UK // (ˈdraɪˌsɔːltə) //

干式盐水机,干盐水,干式盐水,干洗机

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    British.

    • : a dealer in dry chemicals and dyes.

Examples

  • He was a most respectable man—a drysalter from nine to four, and a Presbyterian in his leisure moments.

  • I may say that I had not during my absence from the town encountered my friend, the drysalter.

  • Colonel Goffe had been apprentice to a drysalter; Major-general Whalley had been apprentice to a draper.

  • The old drysalter had no end of nephews and nieces, and might have provided for them all.

  • The original of this character sketch was probably Thomas Hill, the drysalter, whom Lamb knew well.

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