单词 | jakes farmer |
释义 | > as lemmasjakes farmer jakes farmer n. now historical a person employed to empty or clean out privies; cf. gong farmer n. at gong n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > emptying or cleaning of privies > [noun] > one who gong farmerc1302 dung farmer1546 nightman1579 jakes farmer1591 jakes barreller1596 lantern-man1599 gold-finder1611 poleman1615 night-farmer1620 jakesman1630 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. C3v I will for reuenge onely appoint the Iakes farmers of London, who shall caze them in their filthy vesselles, and carrye them as dung to manure the barrain places of Tibourne. a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1134 Iakes-farmers, Fidlers, Ostlers, Oysterers. 1799 J. Ebers New & Compl. Dict. German & Eng. Lang. III. 66/2 Scheihausfeger, der, a Jakes-Farmer, a Cleanser of Jakes, of Necessary-Houses. 2006 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 18 Nov. 53 This has to be one of the least-coveted jobs on the planet: a jakes farmer was employed to empty cesspools. < as lemmas |
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