| 释义 |
† spadiard Obs.
Also 7 spador, 8 spadier.
[Explained by Holland (Camden's Brit. 185) as f. spade n.1, but perh. an error for spalliard1.]
A labourer in the Cornish tin-mines.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. To Rdr. 3 A Spadiard that worketh in mines, who while he..followeth the maine vaines, seeth not the hidden small fillets. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon (1811) 11 There are also labourers, that serve for daily wages, whereof be two sorts: the one is called a spadiard, a daily labourer in tin works. 1630T. Westcote View Devon. i. xi. (1845) 53 Of these last are two sorts; one named a spador or searcher for tin. [1661Blount Glossogr. (ed. 2), Spadiards, Laborers in the Tin-mines of Cornwall. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Spadiers, Labourers that dig in the Mines in Cornwall.] |