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单词 glass-man
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glass-mann.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈglass-man.
1. A dealer in glass-ware.In 16–17th centuries the hawking of glass was often a pretext for begging; see quots.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in household goods
hardwareman1419
glass-man1597
hardware dealer1703
Chinaman1733
broker1818
Chinawoman1837
1597–8 Act 39 Eliz. c. 4 §15 This Statute..shall [not] extend..to any such Glassemen as shalbe of good Behaviour, and do travaile in or through any Cuntry without begging, having lycense for their travayling.
1618 M. Dalton Countrey Justice 97 All Pedlers, pettie Chapmen, Tinkers, and Glasse men wandring abroad.
1668 R. Boyle in Philos. Trans. 1667 (Royal Soc.) 2 592 Glass-men's Shops are not near so well furnish'd as the Stationers.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 535. ¶¶6, 7 If he [sc. my Reader] reflects on the several Amusements of Hope which have sometimes passed in his Mind, as a near relation to the Persian Glass-Man.
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 35 The Profit of Glasses..consists only in a small Present made by the Glass-man.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 7 Mr. Samuel Brooks, glass-man, in the Strand.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 276/1 Glass-men, wandering rogues or vagrants. 1 Jac. I. c. 7.
2. A man engaged in the making of glass.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > glass-maker > [noun]
glazier1385
glass-man1612
glass-worker1842
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. i. sig. F3v Where haue you greater Atheists, then your Cookes? Or more prophane, or cholerick then your Glasse-men ? View more context for this quotation
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §399 Fire doth it not [sc. doth not make men black], as wee see in Glassemen, that are continually about the Fire.
1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy Prolegomenon sig. A8 In the Glassmans Trade, and Looking-glass makers.
1766 E. Delaval in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 20 The glass-men tinge their glass green therewith.
1866 R. Tate Plain & Easy Acct. Mollusks Great Brit. iv. 116 The glass-men of Newcastle once a year have a snail feast.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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