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单词 melter
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meltern.

Brit. /ˈmɛltə/, U.S. /ˈmɛltər/
Forms: 1500s– melter; Scottish pre-1700 meltar, pre-1700 meltare, pre-1700 meltarre, pre-1700 melter.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: melt v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < melt v.1 + -er suffix1. Compare earlier smelter n.1 and post-classical Latin meltarius smelter (late 14th cent. in British sources; compare -er suffix2).
1.
a. A person whose employment involves melting metals or other substances, esp. in a factory, mint, etc. Formerly also: †the title of an officer of the Exchequer (obsolete).
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society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > coiner > officers of the mint
Master of the Coin1423
Master of the Mint1423
Warden of the Mint1463
Usher of the Coins, Change, or Exchange1485
melter1511
mint master1528
Surveyor of the Melting (also Meltings)1556
clerk of the irons1566
master-worker1622
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > workers performing other tasks or processes
river?c1475
melter1511
sinker1526
folder up1552
wiper1552
scourer1574
heaver1587
stoverc1600
rasper1611
ripper1611
roller1616
smearer1632
waterleadera1650
scooper1668
smiter1670
puncher1681
staker1688
crusher1794
hardener1796
reamer1822
piledriver1826
catcher1832
waterproofer1837
middler1847
culler1850
hanger-on1858
pitcher1865
bumper1871
fine liner1871
bricksetter1883
waxer1890
bottle-oh1898
edger1909
bottle-o-er1915
caster1921
recycler1970
linesperson1973
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > melter
melter1511
society > trade and finance > management of money > [noun] > one who has charge of or manages money > one who manages public money > specific officials
chamberlain1415
teller1434
under-treasurer1447
treasurer of the king's warsc1450
vice-treasurer1541
chequer-man?1577
Clerk of the Pellsa1603
treasurer at wars1617
fiscal1652
quaestor1673
underteller1694
First Lord of the Treasury1698
Paymaster General1698
melter1758
treasurer1790
First Lord1855
apposer-
1511–12 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 273 To Gerard, meltar of the mynd, takand monethtlie..iiij Franch crounis.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. vi. 29 The leade is consumed, the melter melteth in vayne.
1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 556 All Meltaris, Forgearis, and Prentaris within the said cunyehous.
1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. f. 205, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Meltar Henry Starky with his meltar, essayar and interpretar.
1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales 41 Then the Melters, that melt the Bullion before it come to the Coining.
1697 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 191 Then they heard the accusation against major Barton, the chief melter of York mint.
1758 J. Rayner tr. R. Fitzneale Anc. Dialogue Exchequer i. iii. f. 4v The under exchequer..has..two officers,..one who presides over the examinations, and the melter... The melter also examines the silver.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 287 A press similar to that which is used by the melters or rinders of tallow.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 242 The cementers and melters affect more or less mystery in their methods.
1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 254/1 The foreman may have various reasons for wanting his melter to make all these changes.
1905 Science 9 June 876/2 James Curtis Booth (1810–88)..from 1849 till his death was melter and refiner in the U.S. Mint.
1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 401/1 The blower kept the gas at a growl and the brew yelled red and the melter hollered ‘Heow’!
1979 Fortune 21 May 16/1 Referred to..as ‘the Head Melter’, after the men who decide when a blast furnace's steel is ready to pour.
b. A person who or thing which melts something, in other senses of the verb.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > [noun] > one who or that which
melter1581
rinder1589
1581 Act 23 Eliz. c. 8 §1 The said Melter, Myngler or Corrupter,..shall forfeyte [etc.].
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxlvii. 53 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 250 Abroad the southern wind, his melter, goes.
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger False One ii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rr/2 Thou melter of strong mindes, dar'st thou presume To smother all his triumphes with thy vanityes?
1695 J. Locke Short Observ. Printed Paper 19 The melter of our mill'd money.
a1764 R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 123 The..charming melter of his purse.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 204/2 I keep both out of the crucible and out of the aqua regia, another great melter and transmuter.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xvii. 201 One of our deck-watch, who had been cutting ice for the melter.
1974 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 12 Feb. 5/3 The combined snow loader and melter was designed by Metro roads department and consultants after testing a small 75-ton snow melter during the past three winters.
2001 N.Y. Times 22 Feb. b3/1 If snowflakes start to fall..New Jersey will be ready with an army of more than 150 snow blowers, plows, melters and brooms.
2. A variety of peach in which the flesh comes apart easily from the stone when ripe; = freestone n. 2. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > peach > types of peach
presse1604
avant-peach1611
man peach1629
nutmeg1629
Roman peach1629
muscat1664
Rambouillet1664
winter peach1664
rumbullion1670
Orleans1674
pavie1675
Magdalenea1678
minion1691
admirable1693
maudlin1699
clingstone1705
nipple peach1719
rareripe1722
melter1766
vanguard1786
freestone1807
cling1845
lemon cling1848
peregrine1903
doughnut peach1993
1766 Compl. Farmer at Peach-tree The nivette; this is a melter, and ripens in September.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 347/1 [Varieties of peach] I. Leaves serrated, glandless. a. Flowers large..Clingstone[s]..Melters [etc.].
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 55/1 Three principal varieties of the Peach exist—clingstones, melters or freestones, and nectarines.
3. A vessel in which substances are melted, a melting pot; a furnace.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > [noun] > small
melter1883
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 103 An improved form of melter..consists of a small furnace [etc.].
1921 Science 18 Mar. 264/2 The crude manna was dissolved in water in a melter heated by steam coils.
1983 Mining Jrnl. (Nexis) 19 Aug. 136 These [people] have been preparing the foundations for multi-hearth furnaces, kilns and melters.
1995 Sci. News 21 Jan. 40/3 Workers feed asbestos-filled polyethylene bags through a chute into a large furnace called a melter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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