English Dictionary

Bartholomew baby

noun

(historical) A wooden doll, generally without arms or joints, painted and dressed in current fashions.

Bartholomew baby is a historical wooden doll.

意味（1）

(historical) A wooden doll, generally without arms or joints, painted and dressed in current fashions.

For He could neither Bow, nor move his Hat to any man that saluted him: No, nor so much as turn from One side to the Other; but sate as if He had been Box’d up, like a Bartlemy-Baby.