| 释义 |
ˈduddery dial.
[f. dud + -ery.]
A place where woollen cloth is sold or manufactured.
a1552Leland Collect. (1774) II. 444 (Stourbridge) Sacellum & inditia ruderum domus veteris eo loco ubi nunc pars fori lanarii, Angl. the Duddery. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Stourbridge, Great store of serges, duroys, druggets, &c. from Exeter, Taunton, Bristol..and some too from London: so that the Duddery, an area of 80 or 100 yards square, in which the clothiers unload, resembles Blackwell-Hall. 1806in Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1306 In this duddery [at Stourbridge fair]..100,000l. worth of woollen manufacture has been sold in less than a week. [A correspondent says that a large woollen factory at Haverhill in Suffolk goes by the name of the Duddery.] |