| 单词 | lead-waller |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslead-waller In the Cheshire salt-works, a brine-boiler, a worker who attends to the salt-pans. Also lead-waller (cf. lead-walling n. at lead n.1 Compounds 3a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > salt-worker weller1440 salt-maker1483 saliner1543 waller1600 salter1606 saltweller1624 wich-waller1670 salt-worker1680 brine-manc1682 brinerc1682 wich-man1688 1600 W. Camden Britannia (new ed.) 543 & muliercule (Wallers vocant) rastellis ligneis é fundo salem educunt. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Lead-wallers, commonly abbreviated to Wallers. Waller, a salt-maker or boiler. At present the men call boilers those who make stoved and butter-salt, and the others wallers. 1892 Labour Commission Gloss. Waller, a local term, applied to salt boilers, i.e., those who look after the boiling of the salt. It is applied to the men who look after the making of any white salt, whether the pan is required to boil or not. < as lemmas |
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