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spreader-ditcher

/spred-er-dich-er/US // ˈsprɛd ərˈdɪtʃ ər //

撒布机-开沟机

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Railroads.

    • : a machine for shaping and cleaning roadbeds and ditches and for freeing tracks of ice and snow by plowing and digging.

Examples

  • The event was a devastating one for Sierra Leone, deemed a “super-spreader” by The New York Times.

  • A couple of foggers and milkers, a hedger and ditcher, two or three women at times, and there is the end.

  • Thou wast a Valacrone in Varinsey, cunning as a fox, a spreader of lies.

  • The spreader is usually stationed in the nearest side track to the unloading place.

  • The other method, called the spreader method, was more intricate.

  • Then you will be talked of by all the town as a spreader of false reports,—in short, Ferdinand loves another.