单词 | printfield |
释义 | printfieldn. Originally and chiefly Scottish. Now historical. An establishment for printing and bleaching cotton fabrics. Cf. print-work n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > factory for printing printfield1742 print-work1800 print house1815 printery1826 print ground1839 1742 Glasgow Jrnl. 1–8 Mar. 4/3 Alexander Buchanan..has..set up a Printing Work at Pollock-shaws..and, for the conveniency of Persons at a Distance, who may incline to send Goods to said Printfield, they have lodged Pattern Books with the following Persons. 1768 Proof adduced in Cause M. Hamilton & Co. 1 He knows the said deceased William Roberton, after he quit the printfield at Woodside, was concerned in carrying on a printfield near Kirkintilloch. 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 380 Printfields for staining cotton cloth have been established at Cromwel-haugh, Huntingtower, Stormont-field and Tulloch. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 214 One of his foremen..worked for a year in a print-field in Lancashire. 1871 G. Easton Trav. in Amer. xii. 125 So you see, from being a printer in a printfield at Denny, abstinence has raised me to be a farmer. 1924 J. Irving Hist. Dumbartonshire III. 349 In the short course of the River Leven there were no less than six large print fields and five bleach fields. 1992 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Oct. 14 First, there was a paper mill then printfields and dyeworks. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1742 |
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