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单词 hemp-dresser
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hemp-dressern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhemp-dresser.
a. One who hackles hemp.
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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.
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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).
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