| 单词 | putter-out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasputter-out putter-out n. a person who puts something out (in various senses); spec. (a) a person who abolishes, puts an end to, or extinguishes something (in quot. a1400 at sense 2, a supplanter); †(b) a person who deposits or lends money at interest (obsolete); (c) a person who puts an animal out to graze or feed; (d) a person whose job is to give work out to those employed at home. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest ten tribes971 gavellerc1200 usurerc1290 Caorsin1303 collybistc1380 ockererc1390 fenerator1447 usuraryc1450 usurier1480 user1566 fulker1568 money-monger1571 moneylender1598 twenty in the hundred1602 Jew's trump1605 putter-outa1616 money-bawd1631 chevisancer1633 use-man1633 Lombardeer1645 money-banker1677 bummaree1738 mahajan1852 sixty per cent1853 gombeen-man1862 a1400Putter out [see sense 2]. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) v. sig. Rr3 Ô knowe him, and become not the putters out of the worlds light. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 48 Men Whose heads stood in their brests? which now we finde Each putter out of fiue for one, will bring vs Good warrant of. View more context for this quotation 1639 in D. G. Hill Dedham (Mass.) Rec. (1892) III. 65 After the sayd owner or putter out of ye same Swyne shall haue knoweledge therof. 1787 J. Kirby Let. to Member of Parl. 16 The putter-out of the Wool. 1859 B. Brierley Daisy Nook 33 It ud melt th' heart of a weight-stone, or what's harder a putter-eawt. 1969 Times 20 Mar. 10/7 The abandoned concept of Britain as a putter-out of brush fires on behalf of the United Nations. 1991 J. B. Schor Overworked Amer. iii. 57 There was little capital, and materials were advanced by the capitalist ‘putters-out’. < as lemmas |
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