| 单词 | chamber man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschamber man chamber man n. (a) a man responsible for the care of the bedrooms of a house or hotel; cf. chambermaid n. 2; (b) Manufacturing Technology a person who works with a chamber process, esp. the lead chamber process; cf. chamber process n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant having care of bedchambers chamber-deaconc1475 chamberlain1587 chamber man1623 bedchamber-man1643 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > workers with lead bluey1897 chamber man1921 1623 T. Powell Wheresoeuer you see Mee 20 With great Officers the chamber-men weare good clothes. 1797 S. J. Pratt Family Secrets V. xiii. 108 All this is woman's work you know, Sir. I am but an aukward chamber-man. 1882 T. W. Higginson Common Sense about Women (1884) xlii. 173 [She] has her pillow smoothed and her curtains drawn, not by a chambermaid, but by a chamberman. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §148 Chamber man (white lead); makes white lead by chamber process. 1956 Anniston (Alabama) Star 26 Apr. a10/5 The chamberman..makes sulfuric acid. 1997 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Oct. 282/3 A Japanese chamber man known as Charlie Jap looked after Hogan's room at the hotel. < as lemmas |
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