单词 | penciller |
释义 | pencillerpencilern. 1. A person who uses a pencil; one who paints, draws, or writes with a pencil; an artist or writer.In spec. use: (a) (formerly, in Calico-printing) an artist who hand-painted part of a design on to the fabric, before the introduction of blocks (now historical); (b) (originally U.S.) a person who produces line drawings for a comic-book, animated cartoon, etc., an illustrator. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > penciller penciller1780 society > communication > writing > writer > [noun] writereOE dightera1000 pena1398 penner1568 calligrapher1752 penciller1836 reducer1868 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) II. 36 Eighteen bleachmen..Six pencillers. 1836 W. S. Landor Pericles & Aspasia Epil. 343 No penciller of similar compositions. 1883 W. Ross Busby & Neighb. iv. 104 A good deal of the colouring was done by the hands of ‘pencillers’, as they were called. 1915 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 36 33 He gives expression not at all to class-convictions per se: he is no mere pen or penciller of social prejudices or notions. 1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 Apr. c3 A fine description of the assembly-line method of cranking out early cartoon films. Each page was broken down into separate jobs: ‘layout penciler’, ‘inker’, ‘background artist’, ‘letterer’ and ‘colorer’ [etc.]. 2004 News & Rec. (Greensboro, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 15 Feb. d1 ‘There are maybe 100 regularly published comics per year,’ says Green, one of the more respected artists in the business. ‘That's 100 inker jobs, 100 pencilers and so on.’ 2. a. Horse Racing slang. A bookmaker's clerk. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making > book-maker > book-maker's assistant penciller1879 tick-tacker1912 settler1963 pickup man1964 1879 Daily News 24 Oct. 2/1 Ten races were set for decision,..business was brisk among the pencillers. 1887 St. James's Gaz. 2 June When the favourite won, the accused and his clerk, or ‘penciller’, promptly changed their clothes and decamped. 1913 A. Pratt Wolaroi's Cup 62 This horse ‘pulled’ at the secret instance of the ‘pencillers’. 1939 Sporting Life 5 July 1/3 Pencillers were generous in laying 9 to 4 ag[ain]st. 2002 Independent (Nexis) 13 Nov. (Sport section) 29 The Champion Hurdle market is, at this stage, relatively unformed and any sparkling performance would have the pencillers sharpening their tools. b. colloquial (chiefly U.S.). A reporter. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reporter newshound1699 writer1717 reporter1776 scribe1822 penciller1886 tripe-hound1923 newshawk1928 pencil1976 1886 Mitchell (Dakota Territory) Daily Republican 16 Apr. 4/3 ‘The Washington monument’, writes a Potomac penciler in The Troy Times, ‘is a great disappointment to visitors’. 1897 Chicago Advance 22 July 111/1 Your penciller..has tarried a day to gather these scattered hints of a meeting. 1901 ‘Linesman’ Words by Eyewitness (1902) 166 British privates have too much natural restraint and dignity of their own to have gratified the staring pencillers in any case. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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