单词 | gatherer |
释义 | gatherern. 1. a. One who gathers or collects (in general senses). Also gatherer up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > gathering together > one who gatherera1200 assembler1635 congregator1649 a1200 Moral Ode 265 in Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 67 Þe þat were gaderares of þisse worldes ayhte. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxx. 1 The wrdis of the gederere [L. congregantis]. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 301 Lion-skin'd Freethinking..ten times slays the slain, and claims to be the sole gatherer up of thy [sc. Liberty's] spoils. 1807 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 95 Of these [the ignorant, etc.] sects and societies have been, as it appears, the appointed..gatherers. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. 320 A gatherer-up of gold. b. esp. A collector of money, often with defining word as rent-gatherer, tax-gatherer, toll-gatherer (now commonly -collector). ΚΠ a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 413 Rasers of the fals tax And gederars of greyn wax. 1521 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 318 They that were the gaderers of this trybute came to saynt Peter. 1572 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 342 To appoynt two gatherers..for the same money. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > the staging of a theatrical production > people concerned with theatrical productions > [noun] > money taker gathererc1600 c1600 in Alleyn Papers (1843) 32 One Jhon Russell, that by youre apoyntment was made a gatherer with vs, but my fellowes finding [him often] falce to vs, haue many times warnd him from taking the box. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth chinch?a1300 wretch1303 chincher1333 muckererc1390 mokerarda1400 muglard1440 gatherer?a1513 hoarder?a1513 warner1513 hardhead1519 snudge1545 cob1548 snidge1548 muckmonger1566 mucker1567 miser?1577 scrape-penny1584 money-miser1586 gromwell-gainer1588 muckscrape1589 muckworm1598 scrib1600 muckraker1601 morkin-gnoff1602 scrape-scall1602 incubo1607 accumulator1611 gripe-money1611 scrape-good1611 silver-hider1611 gripe1621 scrapeling1629 clutch1630 scrape-pelfa1640 volpone1672 spare-penny1707 save-all1729 bagger1740 spare-thrift1803 money-codger1818 hunger-rot1828 muckrake1850 muckthrift1852 gripe-penny1860 hugger-mugger1862 Scrooge1940 a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 150 Hudpykis, hurdaris and gadderaris All with that warlo went. 1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 107 The foolishe prodigall waster, whiche commonlie succedeth the gatherer. 1592 Greenes Groats-worth of Witte sig. B3 Ah Lucanio, my onely comfort, because I hope thou wilt as thy father be a gatherer, let me blesse thee before I dye. 2. One who gathers flowers, fruit, or other produce. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > picker or gatherer gathererc1384 picker1611 puller1653 potato-woman1697 food-gatherer1865 ingatherer1878 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Obad. i. 5 Ȝif gadreris of grapis hadden entriden to thee. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 29 The feld is the fundament of tho flouris, and not the hondis of the gaderers. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 37 Celedonie is an Herbe..whose flower..dyeth and stayneth the gatherers hande. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 3 In Caucasus there are trees of Pepper and Spices whereof Apes are the gatherers. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Mulberry The Gatherer must have his Hands clean. 3. A collector of literary material; a compiler. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > compiling (a work) > one who compilerc1330 gatherera1387 compilatorc1400 aggregator1528 collector1582 scissor man1826 scissorer1846 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 13 [Þey] cleped him a gaderere of old wrytynges [L. compilator veterum]. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 183 He hath not redd the place in Augustine him selfe, but taketh it out of some collectour or gatherer. 1624 H. Wotton Elements Archit. Pref. I am but a gatherer and disposer of other mens stuffe. 1853 R. C. Trench On Lessons in Proverbs 10 Many collections include whatever brief sayings their gatherers have anywhere met with. 4. technical. a. Bookbinding. An operative who collects the sheets of a book in their proper order. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process clasp-man1619 clasp-maker1664 gatherer1683 stitcher1805 book-edge gilder1823 tooler1834 marbler1835 book marbler1843 paper marbler1863 forwarder1870 cropper?1881 flush-binder?1881 inlayer1881 boarder1882 filleter1884 clasper1885 placer1902 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 348 The Gatherer takes it [sc. a Sheet] off with his Right Hand. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 959/2 A more convenient way is to arrange the signatures on a long straight table..so that the gatherers may follow each other. b. Glass-making. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 578 One, called a gatherer, dips the end of an iron tube..into the pot of melted metal. 1888 Daily News 14 Feb. 6/6 In the ordinary process of bottle-blowing the..‘gatherer’, as he is called, gathers a charge of the molten metal from the furnace on the end of a blow-pipe. 5. One of the front teeth of a horse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > mouth or type of > teeth > front tooth or teeth gatherer1696 separators1696 1696 W. Hope tr. J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman i. v. 19 There groweth then in the place of these four Foal-teeth which fell, four others which are called Nippers or Gatherers. 1797 Sporting Mag. 10 295 Gatherers, the two fore teeth. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Gatherers, a horse's teeth by which he draws his food into his mouth. 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