单词 | ironmaster |
释义 | ironmastern. Now historical. The manager or overseer of an iron foundry or ironworks; a manufacturer of iron, esp. on a large scale. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > forger or smith > owner or manager of forge ironmaster1593 forge-mastera1628 forger1891 1593 Indenture 10 Jan. (Kent Hist. & Libr. Centre U1000/3/T5) Thomas Willughbie of Chiddingstone in..Kent esquire..and Thomas Browne of Chiddingstone..in the Countie aforesayd Iron master. 1606 Conveyance 10 Aug. (E. Sussex County Rec. Office: ASH 4501/416) William Relfe of Penherst..Ironmaster. 1626 W. Vaughan Golden Fleece i. Introd. 4 Our Woods..is [sic] lately wasted by the Couetousnesse of a few Ironmasters. 1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 129 This account of the whole process of the Iron work I had from one of the chief Ironmasters in Sussex. 1731 Gentleman's Mag. 1 268 Bilby Laycock of Tamworth Staffordshire, Ironmaster. 1794 Scots Mag. Sept. 586/1 One of the first iron masters and coal miners in the kingdom. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 328 Iron-masters are so very inattentive to its quality..we sometimes see them use limestone as a flux. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers II. 360 The bridge was cast in an admirable manner by the Coalbrookdale ironmasters in the year 1796. 1921 Year Bk. Amer. Iron & Steel Inst. 1920 291 Two other iron and steel projects are in the formative stage; one in the hands of Messrs. Villiers & Company, in which some of the English iron masters are taking a substantial interest. 1986 O. Rackham Hist. Countryside v. 90 Ironmasters who moved into Scotland were expanding their production, not abandoning England. 2002 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 35 110/2 Born in 1718, Angerstein was the son of a successful ironmaster who..helped run the family iron-works until the age of 31. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1593 |
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