spit
noun/spɪt/- 1.
xiên nướng
A thin metal or wooden rod on which meat is skewered for cooking, often over a fire.
ℹ Trong tiếng Việt, từ 'xiên' thường được dùng cho cả hành động xiên thịt và dụng cụ để xiên, vì vậy 'xiên nướng' giúp làm rõ nghĩa đây là dụng cụ.
- They roaſt a fowl, by running a piece of wood through it, by way of ſpit, and holding it over a briſk fire, until the feathers are burnt of, when it is ready for eating, in their taſte.
- An Engliſh family in the country, [...] would receive you with an unquiet hoſpitality, and an anxious politeneſs; and after waiting for a hurry-ſcurry derangement of cloth, table, plates, ſideboard, pot and ſpit, would give you perhaps ſo good a dinner, that none of the family, between anxiety and fatigue, could ſupply one word of converſation, and you would depart under cordial wiſhes that you might never return.—This folly, ſo common in England, is never met with in France: [...]
- 2.
dải đất cát
A generally low, narrow, pointed, usually sandy peninsula or bar.
ℹ Từ 'mũi đất' có thể dùng cho các cấu trúc địa lý lớn hơn, trong khi 'dải đất cát' nhấn mạnh vào thành phần cấu tạo là cát hoặc sỏi của một spit.
- Sand-spits are unfinished beaches, and long tongues or points of land, formed of sand and shingle, by the transporting action of currents and the waves. In Coldspring harbor, a sand-spit extends from the west shore, obliquely, nearly across. [...] The materials are transported by the currents and waves, and deposited to form this spit.
- Or perhaps he may see a group of washerwomen relieved, on a spit of shingle, against the blue sea, [...]