单词 | patteroller |
释义 | patterollern. U.S. Now historical. Esp. in the southern United States: a person who watches and restricts the movements of black slaves at night. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > [noun] > surveillance > one who watches over another > one who keeps black people under surveillance patteroller1892 1892 J. C. Harris Uncle Remus & Friends 4 He sing en he play—oh, gals, go 'way! Whar de patter-roller never kin see. 1893 Nation (N.Y.) 7 Sept. 173/1 Ability to write meant ability to counterfeit passes which would outwit the ignorant midnight ‘patterrollers’. 1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 268 Patteroller, a patroller. 1928 S. V. Benét John Brown's Body 40 He's friends with de ha'nts and steel won't touch him But the paterollers is sure to cotch him. 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xvii. 307 What are you boys doing so far from Tara? You've run away, I'll be bound. Don't you know the patterollers will get you sure? 1964 R. Hayden in Negro Digest June 47 Moon so bright and no place to hide, The cry up and the patterollers riding. 1998 Canad. Dimension (Nexis) 1 July 32 17 In the old days, they used to call them slave-catchers, trackers or patter-rollers, now they are called mercenaries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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