单词 | faggoter |
释义 | faggotern. Now historical. A person who makes faggots of sticks and twigs for use as fuel; esp. one employed to do so. Cf. faggoteer n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other manufactured materials > [noun] > of bundles of wood faggoter1441 faggoteer1857 1441–2 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 79 (MED) Johanni Tomson fagotter. 1483 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 366 To William, fagoter, for makenge of wode vj. dayes ix.d. 1595 Seuerall Rates & Taxations Higham Ferrers (single sheet) (verso) Faggoters. For euery hundreth of brush Faggots felling and making, ix. d. euery hundreth conteining ii. loades. 1674 R. Head Complaisant Compan. 55 Scriveners condition, Faggoters combine. 1733 Pract. Husbandman & Planter I. i. 127 Lawns in several Parts of his Coppice for the Woodward or Fagotter to move his Faggots and Cordwood, &c. into. 1845 Gardeners' Chron. 21 June 418/3 What a mass of rubbish is on the ground all at once for the faggoters! 1884 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 7 Nov. 1/1 (advt.) Wanted, a man to look after and work in the woods. Must be a good faggotter. 1914 Railway Conductor Oct. 680/2 All dead branches and undergrowth had been removed by the painstaking faggoters of the place. 2007 Daily Tel. (Austral.) (Nexis) 12 Dec. 11 In Medieval times faggoters had to forage for wood in freezing forests so Christmas fires would burn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1441 |
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