whipcord / ˈʰwɪpˌkɔrd, ˈwɪp- /
📖毕业后词汇鞭子线鞭子绳鞭绳鞭索
whipcord 的定义
n. 名词 noun- a cotton, woolen, or worsted fabric with a steep, diagonally ribbed surface.
- a strong, hard-twisted cord, sometimes used for the lashes of whips.
- a cord made from the intestines of animals; catgut.
更多whipcord例句
- He was a tall, rather good-looking young fellow, all wire and whipcord, with a chronically whimsical expression.
- I was unused to oaths at that time and they cut me like whipcord, but all the same my pulse was bounding joyfully.
- Covert—A twill-woven cloth sometimes with full face, sometimes sheared to imitate whipcord.
- The sailors, holding her wrists, could feel the whipcord tension of her muscles.
- A keen, sparely built man made of leather and whipcord, with the Australian's shrewd blue eyes.