单词 | furnisher |
释义 | furnishern. 1. a. One who furnishes, in senses of the verb; spec. one who supplies furniture. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > provider or supplier purveyor1340 supplier1384 purveyoressc1400 providerc1485 suppeditator1542 furnisher1611 subministrator1625 sitarch1656 caterer1706 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > of a house > furnishing > furnisher furnisher1894 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Fournisseur, a furnisher. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 269 Their victuals are brought dayly..each furnisher ringing the Bell, giveth warning to his friends, to come receive their necessars. 1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 158 The Line-furnisher, or the Man that doth look after the Ropes. 1759 J. Lauder Decisions I. 303 Some gave out the Duchess of Lauderdale as a..furnisher of him with money. 1881 Daily News 8 Nov. 5/2 The furnishers of pantomine properties. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 16 Aug. 3/1 Diversity is the aim of the modern furnisher. b. Australian. Mining. (See quot. 1869.) ΚΠ 1869 R. B. Smyth Gold Fields Victoria 612 Furnisher, a capitalist who by erecting machinery for, or otherwise assisting a party of miners working a claim, becomes entitled to a share of the profits. 2. In textile printing, a revolving brush or roller that supplies the colour. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > printing > equipment for wheelbarrow-machine1856 furnisher1897 1897 C. F. S. Rothwell Printing Textile Fabrics i. 29 The furnisher generally revolves the same way as the printing roller, and consists then of the ordinary cloth-covered wooden roller; but when pigment colours, or any colour that has a tencency to stick in the engraving, are being printed it is usual to use a brush furnisher and to work it in the opposite way. 1898 F. H. Thorp Outl. Industr. Chem. i. 495 The color is fed to the print roll from the color box by a revolving cylindrical brush called the ‘furnisher’, which dips into the color paste. 1961 H. Blackshaw & R. Brightman Dict. Dyeing 29 The Brush Furnisher is used for print pastes containing a high solids content of heavy density ingredients such as zinc oxide. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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