Apr 4, 2008 17:08
16 yrs ago
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bin (and bin collection)
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We are on top of a mountain, at a mountain hut:
On the weather side of the animal shelter was what appeared to be a stone-built storage area for ***bins***, bunker-like with heavily planked lids [...] "Not likely to get a ***bin collection*** up here. So what's being kept there?" he thought. [...] It was a perfect outside larder. Cuts of sheep were laid out on racks; dead mountain hares [...] hung from nails.
As I understand it, there is an area with several stone silos big enough to get in and store food; but what does "bin collection" mean? What is unlikely up in the mountains?
thanks a lot!
f
On the weather side of the animal shelter was what appeared to be a stone-built storage area for ***bins***, bunker-like with heavily planked lids [...] "Not likely to get a ***bin collection*** up here. So what's being kept there?" he thought. [...] It was a perfect outside larder. Cuts of sheep were laid out on racks; dead mountain hares [...] hung from nails.
As I understand it, there is an area with several stone silos big enough to get in and store food; but what does "bin collection" mean? What is unlikely up in the mountains?
thanks a lot!
f
Responses
| 4 +13 | dustbin (garbage can); regular emptying of dustbins by local authority. |
Jack Doughty
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| 5 +2 | municiple garbage collection |
lindaellen (X)
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| 3 +2 | garbage collection |
Dmytro Palets
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| 3 +1 | below |
Roman Bardachev
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+13
5 mins
Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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English
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United Kingdom
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Native in: English
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dustbin (garbage can); regular emptying of dustbins by local authority.
High. This is UK English only. Bins are dustbins, for refuse (US English: garbage). They are collected regularly (once a week or once a fortnight) by the local authority's dustmen (binmen) or whatever the politically correct term is these days. From individual houses, they are just put out on the pavement (US English: sidewalk) for collection, but for blocks of flats (US English: apartments), they may stay permanently within stone silos, or in some screened off area.
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Comment: "thank you :)"
+2
5 mins
+1
6 mins
Roman Bardachev
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Methinks bin means a garbage container, and bin collection means a service when someone would come with a truck on certain days of the week to pick up full bins and replace them with empty ones, which is an unlikely service up on a mountain top.
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6 mins
Dmytro Palets
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garbage collection
http://www.google.ru/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&hl=ru&ie...
And it seems really unlikely at the top of a mountain. :)
And it seems really unlikely at the top of a mountain. :)
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