单词 | dumper |
释义 | dumpern. a. One who ‘dumps’ or deposits rubbish, etc. b. A dumping-cart or truck. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > dumper or tipper tumbril1440 tumbling car1811 tilt-cart1834 dumper1856 tipper1920 1856 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 7 334 There are on the road..20 gravel dumpers. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 130 Dumper, a tilting-car used on dumps. 1958 Engineering 7 Feb. 165/3 Designed for a payload of 28 short tons, the end-tip dumper can travel at 24 m.p.h. 1967 Guardian 18 July 3/7 A dumper driver. c. One who, or a country or community which, dumps goods (dump v.1 2c). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > importer or exporter > types of provision importer1885 net exporter1890 dumper1903 Klondiker1926 parallel importer1980 1903 Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 5/2 They would not have supported the fiscal policy of Mr. Chamberlain, for they were ‘dumpers’, who sold shoes to the poor below cost-price. 1903 Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 6/3 How long do you think that the dumpers will be content with only dumping unfinished goods? 1919 Economist 11 Oct. 568/2 Germany as a ‘Dumper’. d. A large wave which breaks suddenly and hurls a swimmer or surfer down with great force. Australian and South African. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > types or parts of wave pounder1927 dumper1933 take-off1935 greeny1940 beach break1954 beacher1956 big kahuna1959 greenback1959 close out1962 curl1962 shore break1962 shoulder1962 soup1962 tube1962 wall1962 face1963 peak1963 pipeline1963 set1963 reef break1965 surfable wave1965 point break1966 green room1968 slide1968 barrel1975 left-hander1980 A-frame1992 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Apr. 11/3 One morning he arrived totally gummy in the lower jaw... ‘Done them in in a dumper yesterday at the surf,’ he told us. 1956 S. Hope Diggers' Paradise 166 The dumper is a wave that builds up into a solid mass of water that advances closer inshore without breaking. 1963 A. Ross Australia 63 ii. 51 On the surf beaches beyond Manly, the dumpers thunder in. 1970 Stud. in Eng. (Univ. Cape Town) 1 27 The most popular expression in South African surfing idiom would appear to be dumper. A ‘dumper’ occurs most often when there is an abrupt rise of the ocean bottom to the shore. The wave thus breaks in shallow water and, instead of breaking slowly from the top, falls suddenly in an arc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1856 |
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