Originally and chiefly Scottish. A worker responsible for keeping the rails and permanent way of a railway in good repair; = platelayer, n.
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| 释义 | society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builders or maintainers of railways (3) surfaceman1845 Originally and chiefly Scottish. A worker responsible for keeping the rails and permanent way of a railway in good repair; = platelayer, n. snake1929 U.S. and Australian slang. (See quots.) Cf. snake charmer n. at compounds 4a below. snake charmer1937 (see quots.). |
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