单词 | pan-man |
释义 | pan-mann. 1. A man in charge of a pan, esp. in an industrial process. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with pots or pans pan-man1832 potman1874 1832 A. Davis in P. D. Curtin Two Jamaicas (1955) 234 One stocker-man, one pan-man, three boiler-men... These were all slaves. 1852 De Bow's Rev. Nov. 505 The pan-man (attendant on the defecators) always uses a little lime to prevent fermentation [of the cane-juice]. 1879 Spons' Encycl. Manuf. I. 108 This communication..is closed..by a sliding damper..under the ready control of the pan-man. 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Pan-men, men in the chemical industry engaged in boiling down the liquor obtained from black ash. 1908 Awards Industr. Conciliation & Arbitration Act N.Z. 8 339 [Rates of wages] Trackmen, cutters or otherwise 2 14 0 Panmen 2 17 0 Bullock-drivers 2 17 0. 2. A man who plays a pan in a steel band (see pan n.1 12). Cf. pannist n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > drummer > of specific types of drum taburnistera1340 tabor1362 tabreta1377 tympanister1382 nakerera1400 taborerc1400 taborner14.. kettledrum1542 tympanist1611 kettledrummer1683 tom-tommer1871 trap-drummer1903 Lambegger1938 timpanist1939 pan-man1959 tamboo-bambooist1959 steel drummer1960 1959 W. A. Simmonds ‘Pan’—Story of Steelband 15 In order to understand fully the story of the Pan, one must understand the Panmen, who drew their music from every source that is Trinidadian. 1974 Trinidad Guardian 2 Nov. 9/2 Pan men would be trained to become teaching assistants. 1993 H. N. Thomas Spirits in Dark v. 42 Everyone stopped playing, and the lead panman handed Yaw his batons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1832 |
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