| 单词 | smooting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈsmooting ˈsmooting n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing specific type of work > [noun] > casual work smooting1683 grassing1875 grass1888 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 390 Workmen when..out of constant Work, do sometimes accept of a Day or twos Work..at another Printing-house: this By-work they call Smouting. [Hence in Holme and Luckombe.] 1757 Franklin in Lockwood Amer. Dict. Printing (1894) 513 If a fat old fellow should come to your printing-house and request a little smouting. 1865 C. Knight Shadows Old Booksellers 82 Gent..got no regular employment, but laboured here and there without settlement, upon what was called ‘smouting work’. 1892 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 4) 569 ‘Smooting.’—No member of the [Typographical] Association is permitted to work for any other employer than the one by whom he is engaged.., except in case of accident... Transgression of this rule is called ‘smooting’. < as lemmas |
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