单词 | macadamizer |
释义 | macadamizern. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1824 |
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