| 单词 |
prick-bill |
| 释义 |
prick-bill [f. prick v. + bill n.3] At Christ Church, Oxford, One of the junior students to whom was given the task of pricking off on a printed list the names of undergraduates attending chapel.
1825C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 174 Another visit from the prick bill. 1853‘L. Carroll’ Diary 15 Oct. in Life & Lett. (1898) 53 Found I had got the prickbills two hundred lines apiece for not pricking in in the morning. 1879Simmons Lay Folks Mass Bk. 371 note. |

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