| 单词 | pump-borer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspump-borer pump-borer n. (a) a person who bores tree trunks to make the cylinders of pumps (now historical); an instrument for this purpose; †(b) British regional a spotted woodpecker (obsolete). ΚΠ 1708 London Gaz. No. 4487/3 A Wharf fronting the River of Thames,..called the Pump-boarer's Wharf. 1828 Mirror of Lit. 4 Oct. 218 A specimen of the least woodpecker was lately shot near Newcastle... Its noise resembles that made by the boring of a large auger through the hardest wood; whence the country people sometimes call the bird ‘the pump-borer’. 1848 Zoologist 6 2191 The greater and lesser spotted woodpecker..are known by the most appropriate name of ‘pump-borer’. 1853 Househ. Words 1 Jan. 367/2 In French, a pump-borer is likewise called a cuillère. 2001 World Archaeol. 33 146 His assigned convicts included..a glazier, a slater, a well-sinker/pump-borer, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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