单词 | coolie labour |
释义 | > as lemmascoolie labour C1. General attributive, appositive, and objective, as coolie boy, coolie-catcher, coolie emigrant, coolie hire, coolie labour, coolie system, coolie work, etc. ΚΠ 1681 Fort St. Geo. Cons. 10 Jan. in Notes & Extracts iii. 45 (Y. Supp.) For the farme of Dustoory on cooley hire at Pagodas 20 per annum. 1711 C. Lockyer Acct. Trade India viii. 243 Hamalage, or Cooly-hire at weighing, 1 Coz of every 20 md Tabrees. 1773 Further Rep. Comm. Secrecy State E. India Company 222 Proposals for Cooley work, viz. filling up the earth, &c. were extravagantly high. 1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xxi. 145 Shall I tell the coolie boy to run after him? 1846 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Oct. 251 This is but one instance of the justice of the Cooley system. 1863 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. i. viii. 108 Coolie-traffic can never be carried on by private enterprise. 1865 Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 4/6 A ship..started from Calcutta with four hundred coolie emigrants. 1879 Constit. Calif. in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. App. 678 Asiatic coolieism is a form of human slavery, and is for ever prohibited in this State, and all contracts for coolie labour shall be void. 1890 Times (Weekly ed.) 21 Feb. 10/4 The Chinese agents employed to collect the coolies, and known as ‘coolie-catchers’. 1960 W. P. Morgan Triad Societies in Hong Kong iv. 63 In 1886, a riot broke out in the Western district of Hong Kong arising from extortions practiced in the coolie trade. 1992 L. Scott Witchbroom (1993) 173 I take the flowers Madam send. She must have get the little coolie boy, Ram, Madoo son, to pick them before sun-up. < as lemmas |
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