英语词汇lincoln shingles的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lincoln shingles
词源	Lincoln shingles. Hardbread, also dubbed sheet-iron crack- ers, was called Lincoln shingles by U.S. troops on the frontier. The term is first recorded in Captain Eugene F. Ware’s The Indi- an War of 1874, but must date back to Civil War times, given the use of Abraham Lincoln’s name. A synonym was teeth dullers.
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