单词 | onsetter |
释义 | onsettern.ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates prickera1382 stirrerc1384 enticerc1386 exciter1387 risera1398 solicitor1412 erterc1440 prompter1440 stirrer?1533 motionerc1535 author1546 onsetter1549 stinger1552 setter-on1560 incentor1570 incensora1575 mover1578 whetter1579 out-hounder1596 hounder1597 egger on1598 inciter1598 instigator1598 urger1598 motive1600 fomenter1607 inflamer1609 fetcher in?1611 provokera1616 putter-ona1616 monitor1616 spurrer1632 outputter1639 poddera1640 commoter1646 impulsor1653 shaker and mover1874 agent provocateur1888 impeller1889 sooler1935 spark plug1941 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Pet. ii. f. viiv Playng the intercessour and not the on settour. 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. 179 It serues to admonish vs all,..to beware how we become..On-setters to any prophanenesse. 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. ii. 47 The King..knowing that Clemencie and Grace would more redound to his glory, then..to make himselfe bee beleeved their on-setter, appeased them; pardoning all of them. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] assailera1400 assailant1523 assaulter1548 setter-on1569 aggressor1585 onsetter1588 offendent1646 attacker1664 inundator1794 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > one who assailera1400 assailant1523 attemptera1586 onsetter1588 grassator1602 undergoer1612 attacker1664 1588 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 336 The said servants were the ‘first onsettaris and persewaris’ of the said David. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 332 Tha war not the first onsetteris. a1605 R. Bannatyne Memorials Trans. Scotl. (1836) 224 [They] thoucht best to persew the vtheris and to be the first onsetteris. 1613 in W. Mackay & G. S. Laing Rec. Inverness (1924) II. 112 Becaus the said Elspet was the onsetter, and the original of hir awin harm. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 500 Until the first, From midst the knot of those onsetters burst. 3. Mining. A worker who loads tubs into the cage at the bottom of a shaft; = hanger-on n. at hanger n.2 5. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc. coal putter1708 foal1770 onsetter1789 putter1812 headsman1813 trapper1815 thruster1825 trammer1839 train boy1852 tram1856 hanger-on1858 tipper1861 hooker-on?1881 jiggerer?1881 hitcher1890 tub-loader1891 haulier1892 tilter1892 unhooker1892 flatter1894 jagger1900 thrutcher1901 tram-boy1904 filler1921 1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 682 It is the onsetter's business to hang on the corves upon the rope to be drawn up the shaft. 1867 W. W. Smyth Treat. Coal & Coal-mining 151 Keeping the total weight so moderate that..the onsetter and banksmen can easily handle and run the tubs on the iron plates at the bottom and top of the shaft. 1883 Athenæum 20 Jan. 92/1 At present the light is only down to the onsetter's cabin. 1926 Economica 18 280 Onsetters (includes haulage men of all kinds).—This work is mainly done by young men who later become hewers. 1956 Scotsman 2 June 8/3 Willie Laidlaw, onsetter, who controls everything that leaves the bottom in cage or skip. 1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Onsetter, a man employed at a shaft bottom in a colliery. He ensures correct signalling and cage loading. Lancashire coalfield. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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