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单词 abroad cooper
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abroad cooper
Brewing. attributive, in abroad clerk, abroad cooper: designating a brewery employee who visits publicans' premises to collect payments, oversee the way beer is kept, etc. Now rare (chiefly historical).
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1781 H. L. Thrale Diary 1 Feb. in Thraliana (1942) I. 483 The first Felicity..that I was saluted with on my Arrival, was an Account of Lancaster our favourite Abroad-Clerk running away with Two Thousand Pounds.
1787 Daily Universal Reg. 19 Apr. 4/3 (advt.) A Person who has served his time to the brewery will be happy to be employed as a Clerk, either in the counting-house, store-house, or an abroad Clerk, having been employed in all those situations.
1807 J. Middleton View Agric. Middlesex (ed. 2) xv. 581 The brewer, by his abroad-cooper, is at the charge of finings and labour to preserve the porter in a saleable condition.
1851 Times 28 Feb. 10/1 (advt.) Wanted,..a situation as Cashier, Collector, Abroad Cooper, or Store-house Clerk, in one of the large breweries.
1959 P. Mathias Brewing Industry in Eng., 1700–1830 ii. 31 (note) In Truman Hanbury Buxton the district managers are still called ‘abroad-clerks’ after their eighteenth-century forebears who supervised the monthly collections from publicans; at Whitbreads there are still ‘abroad coopers’.
2006 A. Mutch Strategic & Organizational Change vi. 100 The ‘abroad cooper’ was sent out from the brewery to check on how beer was being kept.
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