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单词 macadamizer
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macadamizern.

Brit. /məˈkadəmʌɪzə/, U.S. /məˈkædəˌmaɪzər/
Forms: see macadamize v. and -er suffix1; also 1800s M'Adamiser.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: macadamize v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < macadamize v. + -er suffix1.
1. A person who makes macadamized roads. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builders or maintainers of roads
waymaker?c1475
roadman1788
road-maker1792
path master1799
roadsman?1807
Macadamite1821
macadamizer1824
road breaker1834
grader1870
asphalter1880
linesman1888
lengthman1902
highway patrol1909
1824 Newcastle Mag. 3 26 [The paviours] have..nothing to do but to transform themselves into Macadamizers.
1864 Reader 11 June 747/3 Our London macadamizers go about their work in a very unscientific way.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 87 Paviour... Macadamiser.
2001 www.new-jerusalem.com 14 Dec. (O.E.D. Archive) The Macadamizer of roads, born Ayr, Scotland 23 sep 1756 and died 26 nov 1836.
2. A person who rides on a macadamized road; esp. one who keeps to the roads when hunting.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > rider > [noun] > who keeps to the roads
macadamizer1832
1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 11 Our little Gallic Macadamizer asked one of the Hibernians present [etc.].
1838 R. S. Surtees Jorrocks's Jaunts 55 A private road and a line of gates through fields now greet the eyes of our M'Adamisers.
1869 ‘W. Bradwood’ The O.V.H. I. xii. 219 ‘Here come all the roadsters!’ growled the latter, as the hounds..crossed a bye-road—along which in the rear clattered some fifty macadamisers.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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