单词 | hammerman |
释义 | hammermann. A man who works with a hammer: spec. (a) a smith or worker in metal; (b) a blacksmith's unskilled assistant or ‘striker’; (c) a man who manipulates a steam-hammer; (d) Coal Mining (see quot. 1829). ΘΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > forger or smith smithOE smithier1379 forgerc1380 encloser1382 hammersmith1382 metalsmithc1384 fevera1450 hammerman1483 smithera1525 anvil-beater1677 metalworker1851 dinger1863 drummer1881 1483 Charter Town Council Edinb. 2 May The Hammermen Craft, bayth blacksmyths, goldsmiths, lorymeris, saidlaris. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xli. A The Smyth comforted the moulder, & the Ironsmyth the hammerman. 1619 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Anthony Pullen of Hawkhurst, hamorman. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata vii. 226 Not only the Hammer-men, but the very Court of Monyers it self. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) IV. 83 The Fourteen incorporated Trades are; Surgeons, Goldsmiths..Farriers, Hammermen, Wrights, Masons [etc.]. 1817 Sporting Mag. 50 17 After the manner of a hammer-man at a forge. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 105 The hammermen of Edinburgh are to my mind afore the world for making stancheons, ring-bolts, fetter-bolts, bars, and locks. 1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 58 When the holers have finished their operations, a new set of men, called hammer-men, or drivers, enter the works. These fall, or force down, large masses of coal, by means of long and sharp iron wedges. 1880 Harper's Mag. Dec. 59 The hammer-man, in a swinging seat, times the turning of his rod of steel to the quick stroke of the hammer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1483 |
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