单词 | clearer |
释义 | clearern. 1. a. One who or that which clears (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > [noun] > one who or that which clearer1599 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > one who explains expositora1340 expounitourc1380 undoer1382 expoundera1425 reader1440 declarera1527 looser1528 explainer1579 exponer1588 illustrator1598 clearer1599 explicator1611 unfolder1611 representer1642 dilucidator1689 unravellera1704 elucidator1715 exponent1812 explanator1858 transfuser1889 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land > one who clears land stubber1481 stumper1827 clearer1829 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered Concl. 46 Desire not to bee a cleerer of S. Peter rather then his hearer. 1630 J. Taylor Praise Cleane Linnen Ded., in Wks. Cleanser, Clearer and Reformer of deformed and polluted Linnen. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 239. ¶11 Gold is a wonderful Clearer of the Understanding: It dissipates every Doubt and Scruple in an Instant. 1769 Lloyd's Evening Post 27–30 Oct. 410/3 Milk of Roses..the most friendly Preserver and Clearer of the Skin. 1829 F. Marryat Naval Officer II. iii. 79 These Irish people would make good clearers of his land. b. One who, or a bank which, transacts the business of passing cheques and bills, etc., through a clearing-house; a clearing-banker. Cf. in-clearer n. at in-clearing n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > one conducting banking business > manager, director, or proprietor of bank > types of banker merchant banker1652 private banker1711 actuary1816 corporate banker1841 investment banker1880 clearer1883 clearing-banker1885 bankster1931 1883 Bankers' Mag. XLIII. 863 The men who transact the clearing business for the various banks are called ‘the clearers’. 1892 Chambers's Jrnl. 613/2 The clearer we will say represents the London and County Banking Company. 1966 Punch 16 Nov. 746/2 The criteria..used in the past to exempt certain banks (all the clearers, but only some of the merchants) from the accounting requirements of the Companies Act. 2. a. Technology (a) Salt-making. A tank or reservoir used in condensing salt from brine. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > equipment pail1481 walling-lead1611 walma1661 Neptune1662 loot1669 ship1669 clearerc1682 cribc1682 barrow1686 hovel1686 leach-trough1686 salt-pan1708 sun pond1708 sun pan1724 scrape-pan1746 taplin1748 drab1753 room1809 thorn house1853 thorn-wall1853 fore-heater1880 pike1884 trunk1885 c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 51 The Brine is..conveyed into large Wooden Vessels..called Clearers. 1863 H. J. Slack in Intellectual Observer IV. 94 The visitors to Lymington..find it [the brine shrimp] abundantly in the tanks or reservoirs, called clearers. (b) Spinning. A revolving roller with wire brushes which strips cotton, wool, etc., off the carding cylinder. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > [noun] > combing > machine > roller or cylinder > for stripping material from carding cylinder ring doffer1855 clearer1875 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 872 The mechanism within the clearer..by which the brushes are caused to travel is simple and solid. 1879 J. Robertson Cotton-spinning in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 274/1 To prevent them from being choked with cotton, each of them is brushed or cleared by smaller rollers, called clearers. (c) Rope-making. ΚΠ 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 54 Clearer, a Tool similar to the hatchell, but with finer teeth, as the hemp is..finished on it for lines and twines, for sail-makers, etc. b. plural. Spectacles that clear the vision. ΚΠ 1921 Public Opinion 23 Dec. 627/3 When their time comes to wear ‘clearers’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599 |
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