单词 | marshaller |
释义 | marshallermarshalern. 1. A person who marshals; a marshal. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > ceremonial officials > [noun] > official who organizes ceremonies heraldc1384 marshala1400 marshaller1616 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > [noun] > action of arranging > one who disponer1558 placera1578 ranger1611 disposer1624 marshaller1718 arranger1826 composer1836 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale xi. 247 Within a while more trumpettes gann resound, that more knightes binn arivd..for whome large space was made by th' marshallers. 1718 J. Trapp in tr. Virgil Æneis I. p. xlix He [sc. Dryden] was the great Refiner of our English Poetry, and the best Marshaller of words. 1851 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 14 102 Statistics..are often looked upon as a mode of marshalling figures which can be arrayed in any way the marshaller may please. 1890 R. Garnett Iphigenia in Delphi 7 The caduceus, by whose might thou [sc. Hermes] art prince And marshaller of all the airy shades. 1910 Westm. Gaz. 11 Apr. 8/3 The marshallers were everywhere, watching and directing. 1972 Star (Johannesburg) 24 Mar. 27 Mr Makwena is an ‘induna’ train marshaller—one of the first Africans to be trained at Elsburg shunting yards. 1988 Washington Post (Nexis) 9 Oct. d6 The world needs the United Nations as a political forum, a moral force and a ‘marshaller’ of technical expertise. 2. A person who controls the movement of aircraft on the ground at an airport, etc. ΚΠ 1960 Times 6 Aug. 4/2 Manchester airport marshallers, who are responsible for manoeuvring airliners on the tarmac. 1987 Air Display Sept.–Nov. 25/2 The marshaller brings you carefully into a rather tightly-packed flight line, signals for you to switch off and then gives you a warm welcome. 1997 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 21 Sept. a12/6 Within a few years he became a ‘marshaller’, one of the people who direct planes to their gate positions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1616 |
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