单词 | hemp-dresser |
释义 | hemp-dressern. a. One who hackles hemp. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > heckling > one who heckler1297 hatchellerc1450 hecklester1480 hackler1649 hemp-dressera1658 a1658 J. Cleveland The Times in Wks. (1687) 241 No zealous Hemp-dresser yet dipp'd me in The Laver of Adoption from my Sin. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6171/10 Benjamin Bellamy..Hempdresser. b. plural. The name of a kind of country-dance. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > [noun] > specific country-dances haya1529 trenchmore1552 hay-de-guy1579 country bumpkin1649 sedany1651 Sir Roger de Coverley1685 Frenchmore1696 mermaid1701 Moll Peatley1711 hemp-dressers1756 cottager's dance1851 pop goes the weasel1853 tempête1873 barn dance1892 line dance1961 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 283 We..had the hemp-dressers one night, which is, you know..the most difficult, and laborious of all the country dances. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 122 I have ‘footed it’ away in sir Roger de Coverley, the hemp-dressers, &c. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.a1658 |
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