单词 | spademan |
释义 | spademann. One who uses a spade; a labourer accustomed to work with a spade. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with tools > with spade or shovel shovellerc1440 shovel-man1559 spademan1559 spader1647 shooler1830 shovel1834 α. β. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ix. 248 We are wretched spadesmen enough.1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 224 The spadesman..is a useful servant on a farm.1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Dec. 3 In Sardinia they can obtain no spadesmen, the Sards having a distaste for performing the continuous work of navvies.1559 Ld. Cobham in Boys Sandwich (1792) 738 Over every x spade men muste be one clercke. 1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A spade-man or spader, een spader, spitter ofte delver. 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 49 It is necessary also to employ spade-men..to clear out the small drains. 1854 W. R. Williams Relig. Progress iii. 59 The spademan who digs the canal. 1864 Realm 17 Feb. 7 From his bowels the armed spademen keep issuing evermore. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1559 |
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