单词 | ironworker |
释义 | ironworkern. A person who works with iron; an employee of an ironworks. 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 c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 583/2 Ferrarius, an yreworchere or an yremongere, or a ferrour. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Yron workers, ferramentarij. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 321/1 There are..these Tools and Instruments pertaining to the Iron Workers. a1718 W. Penn Benefits Plantations in J. E. Oglethorpe Sel. Tracts Colonies (1732) iv. 28 This is follow'd by other depending Trades, as Shipwrights,..Iron-workers, the East-land Merchants,..and Victuallers. 1776 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals V. 151 It is the bad quality of our iron which has established among the iron-workers the general use of putting steel to these instruments [sc. pickaxes]. 1830 ‘J. Hinds’ Vet. Surgeon (rev. ed.) iii. i. 165 The combination of ferrier (or iron-worker) and veterinary surgeon in the same person is not so very incongruous as at first sight may be imagined. 1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. 151 The ironworkers of Follonica beating the ore of Elba into shape. 1889 Boy's Own Paper 7 Sept. 779/2 That picturesque town of ironworkers. 1900 Harper's Weekly 24 Mar. 282/2 One of his stories relates a curious experience with Angus MacLeod, iron-worker of South Boston. 1936 E. A. Atkins & A. G. Walker Electr. Arc & Oxy-acetylene Welding (ed. 3) 396 (advt.) A practical book for Boilermakers, Braziers, Coppersmiths, Ironworkers, Plumbers [etc.]. 2011 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Sept. 10/1 I used to build scaffolding for ironworkers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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