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单词 scavager
释义

scavagern.

Forms: Also skavager.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman scawager, < scawage scavage n.: see -er suffix2.1307 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1901) C. 151 (note) Pro curia de scawageriis.1419 Liber Albus (Rolls) 333 Lez scawageours averont iiii deniers pur chescun tile nusance issint remoez ou debrusez.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈscavager.
1. An officer whose duty it was to take ‘scavage’, and who was afterwards also charged with the duty of keeping the streets clean. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > officer supervising
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scavenger1547
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods > collector of market dues
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1477–9 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 89 Item, paid to the Skauagers for the pament endited. viij d.
1536 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 171 Item, forbycawse compleynt was made by one of þe scavagers of ye Warde of Faryngdon, for kepyng of the stretes there vnclene.
1835 1st Rep. Commissioners Munic. Corporations Eng. & Wales App. ii. 845 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 116) XXIII. 133 Searchers for unwholesome Meat. Scavager to gather the Money. Gaoler.
1901 R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London C. 151 Sir John le Blund, the Mayor, and the Aldermen assembled as a Court of Scavagers.
2. Used for scavenger n. 2. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > one who
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raker1327
canel raker?1518
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scavenger1530
sweep-street1553
channel raker1575
broom-man1592
broom-boy1593
gutter-master1607
rake-kennel1707
fulyie man1826
road sweeper1832
crossing-sweeper1841
street orderly1848
orderly1851
scavager1851
scaffy1853
broomer1857
sweep1858
roader1883
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 218/2 The nominal wages of the scavagers.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 221/1 The ‘regular hands’ of the contracting scavagers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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