| 单词 | fire-trimmer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfire-trimmer fire-trimmer n. now historical and rare a person employed to tend the boiler of a steamship; a stoker. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > stoker fire-teaser1803 stoker1846 fire-trimmer1850 1850 Morning Chron. 1 Feb. There are generally two fire-trimmers, who relieve each other night and day. 1891 Daily News 26 Sept. 2/5 Prisoner and Jensen joined the ship..as fire-trimmers. 1914 Times 24 Jan. 7/6 Fire-trimmers of the Leyland liner Devonian. 1986 A. Coles Slaughter at Sea ii. 22 There was a permanent griminess about them which branded them as stokers, or fire-trimmers, as they preferred to be called. < as lemmas |
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