| 释义 |
aliner|əˈlaɪnə(r)|
[f. aline, align v. + -er1.]
One who lays out things in lines, or brings them to a straight line.
1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. Dict., Aliners are..Men imployed in the abovesaid work of Ranging, or Levelling Rows of Trees, Walls, &c. It were well our English Gard'ners would naturalize those two Words, not being otherwise able to express their signification without a Circumlocution, and having with less necessity naturalized many other forreign terms, without so much as altering their Termination, which in these I have made perfectly English. |