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ˈHollander
[f. Holland1 + -er1.]
1. a. A native of Holland, a Dutchman; also a Dutch ship.
1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. ix. (1870) 148 And I am a Holander; good cloth I do make. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 80 Your Dane, your Germaine, and your swag-belly'd Hollander, (drinke hoa) are nothing to your English. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. i. ii. (1737) 326 There has been at one Time in Brassay-Sound, 1500 Sail of Hollanders. 1777Franklin Lett. Wks. 1889 VI. 82 Those supplies were openly furnished by Hollanders at St. Eustatia. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 3 It was said..Whenever the dignity of the English flag..was concerned, he forgot that he was a Hollander.
b. A South African colonist or immigrant of Dutch birth or descent. Also attrib., or as adj., and Comb.
1699W. A. Cowley Voy. in W. Hacke Collect. Voy. (1729) v. 34 The Village inhabited by the Hodmandods, so called by the Hollanders. 1897in H. M. Stanley Thro' S. Afr. (1898) v. 75, I do not blame the Boers so much as I blame the Hollanders and our Jews here. 1899Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 7/2 The Boers who have occupied Newcastle consist of both Transvaal and Free State commandos, with 400 Hollanders. 1899Daily News 2 Nov. 5/2 It has not been he, but the ‘Hollander’, a most unfavourable specimen of the Dutch race, who has been concerned in all the doubtful intrigues..of the last few years. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 721/1 The effect of this development was the production of a body of officials in the Transvaal, partly Hollander and German, partly Boer. 1903G. W. T. Omond Boers in Eur. 31 South Africa, big towns and seaports excepted, being Hollander–Boer to the core. 1934[see African n. b]. 1971Rand Daily Mail (Home Owner) 27 Mar. 16/1 Developer-builder Gard Duys, a Hollander with a soft spot for progressive architecture, is delighted with the result.
2. Paper-making. A beating-engine, invented in Holland, for the conversion of the bleached rags into paper-pulp. Also called Hollander-beater.
1878Design & Work 19 Jan. 88/3 About fifty years after the invention of the ‘Hollander’..alkali began to be employed for boiling the rags. 1900Cross & Bevan Paper-Making (ed. 2) 172 The ordinary form of beater is fitted with a single roll, and the general arrangement of its working parts is that..described..for a ‘breaking’ engine. This type of beater is known as the Hollander. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 458/2 One of the various forms of beating engine or ‘Hollander’. 1907Cross & Bevan Paper-Making (ed. 3) 179 The Hollander consists of an oblong trough, with semi-circular ends, with a partition or mid-feather running down the centre so as to form a continuous channel round which the stuff can circulate. 1963R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking xiii. 266 In the middle of the eighteenth century, the development of the Hollander beater revolutionized stock preparation methods. This beater was invented in Holland—hence the name—and it replaced the old rag stampers.
3. A Dutch clinker.
1897Webster, Hollander. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water;—called also Dutch clinker. Wagner.
4. (See quot.)
1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 400/2 The largest spars [of timber] are called ‘Hollander’. |