单词 | oilman |
释义 | oilmann. 1. A person who makes or sells animal or vegetable oil; spec. a dealer in sweet oils and eatables preserved in them. Also: a worker in an oil mill. Now chiefly historical and Indian English. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in food and drink > in specific foodstuffs saltera1000 oilman1275 oysterman1305 pepperer1309 butchera1325 mealman1527 pepper mana1661 butter factor1696 porkman1749 flour-factor1815 macaroni dealer1854 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > sellers of other specific things soaper?c1225 oilman1275 smear-monger1297 upholder1333 basket-seller?1518 broom-seller?1518 upholster1554 rod-woman1602 starchwoman1604 pin manc1680 colour seller1685 potato-woman1697 printseller1700 rag-seller1700 Greenwich barber1785 sandboy1821 iceman1834 umbrella man1851 fly-boy1861 snuff-boxera1871 pedlar1872 snake-boy1873 bric-a-brac man1876 tinwoman1884 resurrectionist1888 butch1891 paanwallah1955 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other manufactured materials > [noun] > of oil oilman1275 oiler1278 1275 in G. Fransson Middle Eng. Surnames (1935) 70 Joh. le Ulemon. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 363 Oly mann..he that makythe or syllythe oyle, olearius. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 668 A Hogge at Basill, nourished by a certaine Oile-man. 1675 Ape-gentle-woman 2 She holds the same league with oyl-men and vintners, as the city constables do with the counter turnekeys. 1750 H. Purefoy Let. 9 June in Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. vii. 181 Carry the stone Bottle I send you to one Mr. Marlow an Oyllman at Smithfeild Barrs & have the same filled with Neats foot Oyll. 1794 R. Cumberland Jew ii. 27 Gracious! how my mouth did water, as I saw a string of them [sc. Bologna sausages] dangling from the penthouse of an oilman's shop! 1865 Sat. Rev. 5 Aug. 173 Sold, not only by all druggists, but also by grocers, oilmen, and chandlers. 1893 Econ. Jrnl. 3 606 Compare the legitimate and natural function of the milkman..with that of the oil-man, the coal-man, the wood-man [etc.]. 1901 R. Kipling Kim ix. 226 Kim was apparelled variously as a young Mohammedan of good family, an oilman, and once..as the son of an Oudh landholder in the fullest of full dress. 1902 N.E.D. Oilman, a worker in an oil-mill. 1997 A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies ii. vi. 191 He was..educated in Jaffna where his father, now dead, had kept a small oilman store. 2. A worker in the oil industry; an employee or owner of an oil company. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker in oil industry > [noun] oilman1865 1865 Atlantic Monthly 15 388 She was still considering her probable success in finding an oil-man to take her down the Creek. 1880 Harper's Mag. Dec. 65 There are engines and boilers and pumps to be built for the oil men. 1912 W. S. Tower & J. Roberts Petroleum v. 83 The flowing or gushing wells are always regarded as lucky strikes among oilmen. 1951 T. Sterling House without Door i. 6 She knew what Texas oil men looked like. 1975 Lamp (Exxon Corporation) Winter 11/1 When they began to commit sizable sums to North Sea oil development three and four years ago, oilmen expected the investment to be a costly one. 2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 25 Nov. 22 Our president is an oilman. 3. A person who oils machinery. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [noun] > one who operates machine > who performs specific task feeder1676 winder1823 greaser1832 oiler1846 grease-man1898 oilman1902 pani-wallah1957 1887 R. L. Stevenson Memories & Portraits vii. 116 The lamp and oil man, just then beginning..to bloom into a lighthouse-engineer.] 1902 N.E.D. Oilman, a man who oils machinery. 1957 D. G. O. Baillie Sea Affair 244 Paniwallahs..are not really watermen at all, but oilmen, or greasers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1275 |
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