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单词 hatcher
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hatchern.

Brit. /ˈhatʃə/, U.S. /ˈhætʃər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: hatch v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < hatch v.1 + -er suffix1.
1.
a. A person who facilitates or looks after the hatching of eggs; spec. a poultry breeder. Also: a bird, insect, etc., which hatches eggs or young.In extended use in quot. 1550.
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1550 R. Hutchinson Image of God xxiv f. cxiii God the holy ghost maker of al spirites, knower of thoughtes, gouernour of the church, forgeuer of sinnes, hatcher of the creaturs, fyller of all places.
1579 J. Ludham in tr. A. Hyperius Course of Christianitie Ep. Ded. sig. ★ivv We are al workers of wickednes, al shrinking and rebellious children, lyars, and lighter than vanitie it selfe, all hatchers of Cokatrice egges, and weauers of the Spiders webbe.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 381 The Oven producing..three or foure hundred living Chickens..the Hatcher or Curator, is onely Recompensed according to the living numbers.
1670 I. Tonge Let. 6 June in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 26 Yt [spider] wch was white all over her body were not a breeder, as ye other was manifestly a hatcher.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. ix. 41 A Curse light on the hatcher of the ill Bird.
1771 ‘Muscipula Sen.’ Curious Remarks Hist. Manch. 39 He was determined to make the Wild-Boar lay Eggs, and be a Hatcher of Chickens.
1792 R. Heron tr. C. Niebuhr Trav. Arabia I. iii. vii. 93 The owners mark their eggs; and the hatcher is obliged to show the marks upon those which misgive in the hatching.
1838 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 5 600 Those diligent hatchers who cackle so much and sit so little.
1890 Legal News 11 Oct. 322/1 If the hatching be the principal part, the hatcher is only obliged to pay the value of the egg to him to whom it belonged.
1922 Amer. Poultry Jrnl. Feb. 227/1 These hatchers purchase eggs at prices well above those ruling for table eggs.
1976 R. Luttman & G. Luttman Chickens in your Backyard x. 79 Some hatchers prefer to incubate dirty eggs rather than run a risk by washing them.
2015 Nairobi Star (Nexis) 28 Apr. I also want to concentrate on breeding the Scot dumpy breed, locally know 'Karuru', as it is a good hatcher.
b. A device in which eggs are hatched artificially, esp. for commercial purposes; an incubator.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > [noun] > incubator or brooder
furnacec1400
brood-oven1737
eccaleobion1839
hatcher1856
incubator1857
brooder1880
brood-chamber1888
1856 Year-bk. Agric. 48 Our perspective sketch represents the hatcher complete.
1888 R. J. Lloyd Pryce Pheasant Rearing 37 Take them [sc. the eggs] from under the hen, and place them in the drawer of the hatcher.
1921 Amer. Poultry Jrnl. Mar. 322 (advt.) Don't class this big, galvanized iron covered dependable hatcher with cheaply constructed machines.
1995 Field Mar. 40/4 Brinsea Products produces a compact range of incubators, hatchers and associated equipment.
2003 Farmers Guardian 14 Mar. 47/4 (advt.) Game Rearing Equipment For Sale... Incubators and hatchers.
2. figurative. A person who contrives or devises a plot, scheme, etc., esp. clandestinely. Also (rarely): a place where such plots are contrived. Chiefly with of.
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the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > [noun] > plotter
compassera1513
engineer?a1513
hafter1519
contrivera1522
deviser1523
intrycarc1540
practiser1545
practisant1550
practitioner1560
brewer1563
platformer1572
hatcher1578
politician1586
plotter1594
tamperer1599
plotcaster1602
machinator1611
plot-maker1641
trinketer1651
intriguer1667
plot-monger1683
schemist1724
under-plotter1728
intriguant1781
policizer1809
intriguist1830
schemer1846
planster1945
wheeler-dealer1960
1578 J. Rogers Displaying Secte Heretiques (new ed.) sig. C.iiijv One Dauid George was the founder, hatcher, and breeder of all this mischeefe.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 5 The crime whereof themselves were the hatchers.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Eph. v. 3) He found theaters to be the very hatchers of all wickednesse.
1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub ix. 180 A great Hatcher and Breeder of Business.
1793 T. Scott Poems 80 Ye hatchers of Contention and disorder! who embroil Whole fam'lies, states and nations.
1814 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Mar. 368 If he had been a hatcher of the scheme, would [he] have so arranged matters as to bring the Hoaxer to his own house?
1883 T. Martin Life Ld. Lyndhurst v. 135 His informant, as the hatchers of anecdotes too often are, was under a delusion.
1920 Boys' Life Nov. 13/1 The Skeeter..had admired the Owl whom he recognized as..a hatcher of countless schemes.
1999 J. Lloyd tr. C. Calame Poetics of Eros in Anc. Greece ii. 45 Aphrodite, the hatcher of cunning plots.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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