| 释义 |
heler, healer Obs. exc. dial.|ˈhiːlə(r)|
Also 8–9 heeler.
[f. hele v.2]
1. a. One who covers up or conceals. b. A thing that covers; a cover, covering, coverlet.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. vi. (1495), The eye lyddes that ben the helers and couerars of the eyen. Ibid. v. viii, A byrde in stede of an eye lydde hath an heler to couere and kepe the syghte. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropsh. Word-bk. s.v., A proverbial saying heard in the neighbourhood of Stoddesden:—‘The heler's as bad as the heaver’. 1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. 334 Heler, a horse⁓cloth; coverlet. ‘Better nit put the haler 'pon th' 'oss’. Ibid. 335 ‘The heler's so bad as the stealer.’
2. A slater or tiler: = hellier.
1674Ray S. & E. C. Words s.v. Heal, In the West he that covers a House with slates is called a Healer or Hellier. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 82 Squares of..Tyling in the Healers, or Bricklayer's Work.
3. The upper half of a drain tile, when made in two semicylindrical parts (the under part being the ‘gutter tile’).
1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 231, 1300 tiles with heelers, at 5s. per 100. |