单词 | pikeman |
释义 | pikemann.1α. Middle English pykeman, 1500s (Scottish)– pikeman. β. 1800s pikesman. ΚΠ 1259 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Brit. Surnames (1976) 272 Ralph Pykeman. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > miller millwardeOE millerOE meal-maker1274 windmillward1314 dusty-poll?1518 mill-yemer1530 water miller1533 windmiller1533 pikeman1551 milleress1680 corn-grinder1841 1551 Dundee Burgh Court Bks. II. f. 118, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pikeman Pikeman of the said myln. 1576 in D. Littlejohn Rec. Sheriff Court Aberdeenshire (1904) I. 242 Alex. Williamsone..pikeman of the Miln..and uptaker of the multur and knaifschipe of the tounes and lands of the Miltoun of Auchnagat. a1600 MS Rec. Aberdeen in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 489/1 Pikeman of the townis millis. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Pikman, Pikeman, Pikieman, the same as Pickie-man, and pron. as three syllables. 1877 G. Fraser Wigtown 60 The Clerk..and Jamie the Pikeman [had] a mutual dislike and dread of each other. 3. A person who wields a pickaxe; esp. one who hews the coal in a mine; = pickman n.1 Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] minerc1390 digger1531 pioneer1552 mineman1579 groover1610 berman1677 Vulcana1680 pitman1709 pikeman1744 Geordie1861 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with tools > with pick pickman1571 beele-man1671 pikeman1744 picker1883 1744 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1968) VII. at Pike The Condition of the Pike-men, who dig in the Mine. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. vi. vi. 213 ‘My missus told it me at the pit-head when she brought me my breakfast’, said a pikeman. 1880 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. The pikeman's recumbent position and the easy strokes he appears to take at the coal. 1912 Times 19 July 15/2 A pikeman employed on piecework on thick coal is given a minimum of 5s. 1982 Econ. Hist. Rev. 35 59 The work of the pikeman..was both exhausting and dangerous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pikemann.2 A soldier armed with a pike; a pike-carrier. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > using pike gildena1450 pickman1547 pike1557 pikeman1566 piker1590 piquier1596 morris-pike1599 peakman1668 rapparee1690 pikanier1816 wattle-boy1832 1566 J. Partridge Worthie Hystorie Plasidas 993 The pike-men, they on walles doe stande their towne for to defende. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 17 He ought..being a pikeman, to tertiar or charge his pike. 1682 London Mercury 28 Oct.–1 Nov. 1/1 Not a Musketeer without a Buff-Coat, scarce a Pikeman with out his Feather. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. iv. 298 The Pikemen had fasten'd to the tops of their pikes..printed Papers of the Protestation. 1775 J. Adams in Warren–Adams Lett. I. 54 A Project of procuring Pikes and Pike men. 1803 W. Scott Let. 27 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) I. xi. 389 Armies of Reserve, and Militia, and Pikemen, and Sharpshooters. 1885 Spectator 30 May 715/2 The Swiss pikemen at Morgarten..brought this ascendency to the ground. 1969 J. Henderson Sword Collecting v. 39 Three or four ranks of pike-men..extended their 18-foot pikes to form a wall of points. 2004 Church Times 13 Feb. 12/4 Each year, the Shaftesbury Society..finds itself surrounded with colourful ceremony, as the Lord Mayor of London arrives with his company of pikemen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † pikemann.3 Obsolete. The keeper of a turnpike. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road > barrier on > keeper of turnpike-keeper1738 turnpike-man1769 pike-keeper1836 pikeman1841 1841 Knickerbocker 17 488 But the pikeman had heard the rattling of wheels, and rushed out, bare-footed, and clad only in a long shirt. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. iv. 83 The cheery toot of the guard's horn, to warn some drowsy pikeman or the ostler at the next change. 1865 Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 4/6 On certain roads you may travel for leagues without being interrupted by the ‘pike-man’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.11259n.21566n.31841 |
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