winkle-picker

名詞

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(UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten. / An implement used to extract the flesh of a periwinkle from its shell.

日本語の意味

巻貝（パーウィンクル）を採取する人 / 巻貝から肉を取り出すための道具

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The elderly winkle-picker taught me how to pry the tiny periwinkles from the rocks without breaking their shells.

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年配の海辺で食用の小さな巻貝を採る人が、殻を壊さないように岩から小さな巻貝を外す方法を教えてくれた。

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意味（1）

(UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten.

[The girl] informed me that […] I had no right to wander at will upon the winkle-beds! Her brother, said she, was the watcher over this particular part of the Whitstable fishing-ground, beyond which he was the champion winkle-picker of the neighbourhood!

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意味（2）

An implement used to extract the flesh of a periwinkle from its shell.

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意味（3）

A style of boot or shoe with a severely pointed toe, fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s.

Four children on the roundabout […] and two youths with heavy side-burns and stiff crew cuts, in black sweaters, drain-pipe jeans and winkle-pickers, made up the entire custom of the afternoon.

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winkle-pickers

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winkle-picker

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