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单词 ruller
释义

rullern.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English rull , -er suffix1.
Etymology: < rull to wheel, regional (Cornwall) variant of roll v.2 + -er suffix1. Compare roller n.1 IV. N.E.D. (1910) gives the pronunciation as (rɒ·ləɹ) /ˈrʌlə(r)/.
English regional (Cornwall). Mining. Obsolete.
An underground mineworker whose job was wheeling wheelbarrows.
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1845 Mining Jrnl. 22 Nov. 660/2 Rullers, the persons who work the wheelbarrows underground.
1898 J. H. Pearce Ezekiel's Sin xvii. 112 The word is primarily a miner's term—the lads in the mines who wheel the barrows being spoken of as ‘rullers’—and the form of punishment it indicates, when used for this purpose, is more particularly indulged in among the mining communities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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