单词 | gold-beater |
释义 | gold-beatern. 1. a. A person who beats gold into gold leaf.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > worker in gold or silver > goldsmith > gold-beater gold-beater1252 gold-driver1687 1252 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 134 (MED) Will. the Goldbeter. 1368 in F. Collins Reg. Freemen York (1897) I. 63 (MED) Johannes Bray, goldebetter. a1450 in L. T. Smith York Plays (1885) p. xxi Goldbeters. 1484 Rolls of Parl.: Richard III (Electronic ed.) Parl. Jan. 1484 §29. m. 20 The artificers..that is to say..goldebeters [etc.]. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 253 The inhabitants of this lane, of olde time were goldbeaters, as doth appeare by records in the Exchequer. 1671 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. (ed. 2) II. x. iv. 36 Some of our Gold-beaters in London..do, by cleansing and otherwise preparing the..nasty Gut of an Oxe, obtain exceeding fine Membranes. 1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. at Beating The modern Gold Beaters do make Gold of divers thicknesses. a1800 W. Cowper Flatting-mill in Poems (1815) III. 79 It is doom'd to sustain The thump-after-thump of a gold-beater's mallet. 1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi xv. 522 The gold-beater and..smith, are known to Homer. 1915 G. Lee Diary 2 Oct. in Home Fires Burning (2006) 135 The small picture I want to give Uncle Gerry will now cost more: the frame 25% dearer owing to a strike among the gold-beaters. 1998 L. Forbes Bombay Ice (1999) 347 ‘The strength of pure gold is increased by alloying it with other metals.’... ‘I know this, madam. My grandfather was a goldbeater.’ 2014 Irish Times (Nexis) 23 Oct. 14 The gold comes in sheets of 25 leaves..and she buys it directly from a goldbeater in Florence called Manetti. b. gold-beater's skin n. the prepared outer membrane of the intestine of an ox.Valued for its strength, the material was traditionally interleaved between pieces of gold that were to be beaten into gold leaf. It has also been used to make wound dressings, hygrometers, and other scientific instruments, to form the skin of airships, and to repair vellum manuscripts. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > from animals gold skin1507 mouth gluec1540 water glue1542 isinglass1545 gold-beater's skin1710 sea-glass1753 book1765 bone1812 mist1852 staple isinglass1879 mist1896 mis1958 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 266. ⁋3 Gold-beaters Skin applied to stop the Blood. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 94 Leaves..thin as gold beaters skin. 1852 C. Morfit Art of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing (1853) 540 Goldbeater's skin is prepared from the external or peritoneal coat of the coecum, or blind gut of neat cattle. 1897 H. H. Peerless Diary 7 Aug. in Brief Jolly Change (2003) 38 Then Millie and her mother go home and Mr G. and I walk to find a chemist's shop to buy some Goldbeater's skin for his damaged leg. 1939 R. J. Hartman Colloid Chem. xiv. 297 Animal sacs such as pig, ox, or fish bladders, as well as goldbeater's skin (peritoneal membranes of cattle)..are very efficient for certain dialytic separations. 1965 F. Gerrard Macgregor's Struct. Meat Animals (ed. 2) vii. 145 The caecum of the ox is split and dried and forms ‘Gold Beater's Skin’, on which thin sheets of gold are laid to be rolled off on to baser metals as a kind of plating. 2014 Independent (Nexis) 29 May 24 The Germans had perfected a technique of making the remarkable material of the gas bags out of the tough but supple skin of a cow's appendix (known as ‘gold-beater's skin’ because of its use in making gold leaf). ΚΠ 1832 H. M'Murtrie Cuvier's Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 392 This division comprises the genus Cetonia, Fab., Or what we commonly term Goldbeaters. 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Goldbeaters..a genus of Coleopterous insects, remarkable for their beautiful golden-green and copper colours. 1865 T. R. Jones Animal Creation 122 Among these are The Gold Beaters (Buprestis), conspicuous from their size and the magnificence of their colours. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1252 |
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