单词 | ironsmith |
释义 | ironsmithn. 1. A person who makes and repairs iron articles by hand; a blacksmith. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > ironworker or blacksmith ironsmithOE blacksmith1248 smithy man1308 ferrerc1380 ironworkerc1450 vulcanist?1586 smug1600 Vulcan1603 fireworker1608 iron man1610 roughneck1901 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) iv. 22 Be Sellan he gestrynde Tubalcain, se wæs ægðer ge goldsmið ge irensmið. OE Ælfric's Colloquy (1991) 38 Habeo fabros, ferrarium [read ferrarios] aurificem, argentarium, ęrarium : ic hæbbe smiþas, isenesmiþas [MS isene smiþas, perh. read isensmiþas], goldsmiþ, seoloforsmiþ, arsmiþ. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xxxvii. 318 Stephanus se irensmið wæs forðfered on þa ylcan tid. 1327 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 160 (MED) [Ralph le Gilder and Richard de Bernham,] irensmythes. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxviii. 29 The iren smyth sittende biside the stithie. a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 1 Kings xiii. 19 There was not an yren smith foundun in al the loond of Yrael. 1535 M. Coverdale Ecclus. xxxviii. 29 [28] The yronsmyth in like maner bydeth by his stythie. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia ii. sig. Rviii Poore labourers, carters, yronsmythes, carpenters, and plowmen. 1609 Bible (Douay) I. 1 Sam. xiii. 19 There was not found an yron smith in al the Land of Israel. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 202 An Iron-smith. 1675 E. Borlase Reduct. Ireland 175 Hugh O-Neal Son of Matthew Fathereugh, that is an Iron-Smith. 1758 tr. A. S. Maillard Acct. Micmakis & Maricheets 105 Peters was an ironsmith in England. 1799 Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 5 13 Among the Bráhmens, goldsmiths, carpenters, and ironsmiths,..the son does succeed to the rights and property of the father. 1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church I. iv. 207 The ironsmith, the joiner, and the goldsmith. 1840 Ann. Reg. 1839 App. Chron. 477/2 Robert Stewart, of North Woodside, near Glasgow, ironsmith. 1936 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 5 578/1 Each individual is at once peasant, ironsmith, craftsman, warrior, etc. 1972 F. Mansur Bodrum iii. 62 The ironsmiths do repair work on engines, on sponge-rakes, and on boat parts and jeep parts. 1991 G. A. Oddie Hindu & Christian in S.-E. Asia i. 21 Included among these were potters, iron smiths, carpenters. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Capitonidae (barbet) > megalaima haemacephala copper-smith1862 ironsmith1870 1870 R. Swinhoe in Ibis 6 96 From its loud peculiar call, the Hainan species has earned among the natives of the island the appellation of ‘Ironsmith’, whence I have derived its specific name [sc. faber]. [Note] ‘The Ironsmith, so called because its voice sounds like hammering the metal.’—Kiung-shan-Heen Che [i.e. Qióngshān xiànzhì ‘Qiongshan county records’]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。