| 单词 | looker-out |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslooker-out looker-out n. (a) a person who looks out (in various senses of to look out at look v. Phrasal verbs 1); (b) (in the book trade) a person who locates and retrieves requested volumes from stock (now historical). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > watcher or look-out showerOE tootera1382 waiter1382 night watcha1400 scout-watcha1400 looker-out1562 night-watcher1569 watcher1572 scout1585 bishop1592 speculator1607 lookout1662 speculatory1775 lookout man1787 stagger1859 dog1870 eye1874 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of bawdy-basket1567 ballad-monger1598 land-pirate1608 map-monger1639 bookwoman1647 mercury1648 second-hand bookseller1656 Bible-seller1707 map-seller1710 stall-man1761 book auctioneer1776 scrap-monger1786 colporteur1796 death-hunter1851 train boy1852 speech-crier1856 roarer1865 looker-out1894 1562 J. Heywood Sixt Hundred Epigrammes xx. in Wks. sig. Cciiv All Newgate wyndowes bay wyndowes they bee. All lookers out there stand at bay we see. 1623 R. Jobson Golden Trade 9 What variety of wilde beasts..for the sustenance and comfort of those as trauaile..alwayes at hand to mend the dyet of any ingenious looker out. 1767 Polit. Reg. Oct. 363 The lookers-out have not been able to prevail on any man of consequence to accept [an office]. 1850 G. Grote Hist. Greece VIII. ii. lxiii. 140 The Peloponnesian fleet completely eluded the lookers-out of Thrasyllus. 1894 Leeds Mercury 22 Sept. 4/6 Behind the scenes the ‘looker-out’ in charge of the order is rushing about a series of mazes which..extend, floor above floor, from the cellar to the attic. 1939 H. Hodge Cab, Sir? ii. 20 At the blind corners, where the separate sections are too far apart to keep in touch, there's a ‘looker-out’. He waves up the cabs from one section to another. 2001 P. Vincenzi Something Dangerous i. 7 He had..enjoyed..his time as a looker-out on the trade counter. He wasn't sure why, but it seemed to him a most satisfying part of the publishing process, collecting books from the great store in the basement. < as lemmas |
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