| 单词 | customer weaver |
| 释义 | > as lemmascustomer weaver customer weaver n. originally and chiefly Scottish (now historical) a weaver who does work to order for private or individual customers as opposed to a factory, wholesaler, etc.; cf. custom adj. 2. ΚΠ 1808 J. Duncan Pract. & Descriptive Ess. Art of Weaving: Pt. II vii. 303 This rule is chiefly useful to customer weavers. 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 29 Sept. 277/1 There are now very few customer weavers, as they are called, who can obtain full employment. 1956 Trans. & Papers (Inst. Brit. Geographers) 22 142 Wool and flax..were spun in every home and then sent to the customer-weaver. 2000 B. Jennings in J. Thirsk Rural Eng. (2002) ii. 65 The majority without looms put out the weaving stage to a customer weaver, a figure represented in literature by Silas Marner. < as lemmas |
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