单词 | currier |
释义 | curriern.1 1. One whose trade is the dressing and colouring of leather after it is tanned.In the earlier quots. confused with tanner; but the two trades were quite distinct and legally incompatible in 1488. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with skins or hides > [noun] > worker with leather > who dresses leather currierc1380 ploater1601 leather-dresser1611 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 471 Seynt petre dwelte in a corieris hous. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds ix. 43 Many dayes he dwellide in Joppe, at Symound, sum coriour, or tawier [a1425 L.V. a curiour; L. Simonem quemdam coriarium]. a1425 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Deeds x. 6 Curryour, or tawer [c1384 Douce 369(2) This is herborid at sum man, Symound, coriour, whos hous is bisydis the see]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 93 Coryowre, coriarius, cerdo. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 93 Coupers, coryers, tawiers, skynners. 1488 Act 1 Hen. VII c. 5 §2 That no Tanner whiles he occupieth the mistere of a Tanner..use the mistere of a Coriour nor blak no leder to be put to sale. ?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.i The nexte that came was a coryar And a cobeler his brother. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. H.iij When Tanners are, with Corriers wel agreede. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. F3 The tanners, makers, curriers, and dressers of the same [sc. leather]. 1639 Sc. Acts, Chas. I (1870) V. App. 610/1 Edward Spencer Corier, craving libertie to buy hydis..and vent the same being Coried. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 121 Useless to the Currier were their Hides. View more context for this quotation 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. iv. 138 The trade of a coach currier is hardly carried on any where except in the metropolis. 1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Wks. (1890) I. 70 A currier's shop, where..men were always beating skins. 2. One who curries horses, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > grooming of horses > currier of horse currier1555 curry-comber1889 1555 J. Heywood Two Hundred Epigrammes with Thyrde sig. A.vii When short hors, and short coryers do meete. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 85 A currier of camels. 3. One who curries favour. ΚΠ c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. Diij v Flaterers and lyers, Coryers of fafell. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † curriern.2 Obsolete. 1. An early kind of firearm: see quot. 1834. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > other small arms long gun1530 currier1558 crabut1626 long arm1675 bullet-guna1701 hand cannon1752 wall-gun1812 walking-stick gun1823 shoulder gun1824 safety gun1825 gas gun1856 self-cocker1857 bolt action1871 snap action gun1875 saddle gun1886 multibarrel1899 dane gun1900 clip-loader1901 pump-action1923 sleeve gun1944 laser gun1961 phaser1966 magnum1970 1558 Ld. Wentworth Let. to Q. Mary 2 Jan. in Earl of Hardwicke Misc. State Papers 1570–1726 (1778) (modernized text) 109 The enemies..with their curriors (which assuredly shot very great bullets, and carry far). 1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 8 Their Corriars were more woorth Then double tolde, the peces that we brought. 1589 W. Wren in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 147 Hee caused his bases, curriers, and harquabusses to be shotte off. 1659 J. Howell Particular Vocab. in Lex. Tetraglotton (1660) Smaller guns, as courriours, harque~busses, muskets. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 373/2 The Currier, or currier of war..of the same calibre and strength as the arquebus, but with a longer barrel. 2. A man armed with a currier. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > one bearing or using handgun > culverin culverineer1568 currier1577 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1844/1 Herewith a companie of Curriours and Caliuers were putte forwarde. 1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline i. 44 The Caleuers or Coriers. Such must haue either of them a good and sufficient peece. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1c1380n.21558 |
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