单词 | stealer |
释义 | stealern.1 a. One who steals; a thief; now only, one who steals something specified. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] thief688 bribera1387 stealer1508 taker?a1513 goodfellow1566 snatcher1575 lift1591 liftera1592 larcin1596 Tartar1602 lime-twig1606 outparter1607 Tartarian1608 flick1610 puggard1611 gilt1620 nim1630 highwayman1652 cloyer1659 out-trader1660 Robin Goodfellow1680 birdlime1705 gyp1728 filch1775 kiddy1780 snaveller1781 larcenist1803 pincher1814 geach1821 wharf-rat1823 toucher1837 larcener1839 snammer1839 drummer1856 gun1857 forker1867 gunsmith1869 nabber1880 thiever1899 tea-leaf1903 gun moll1908 nicker1909 knocker-off1926 possum1945 scuffler1961 rip-off1969 1508 Reg. Privy Seal Scot. I. 283/1 He dredis that the stelaris of it [a seal] hes fenȝeit and maid fals lettrez..on his behalff. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 153 Off stomok steillaris and clayth takkaris, A graceles garisoun. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Plagiarius,..also a stealer of bokes. 1547 W. Baldwin Treat. Morall Phylos. ii. x. sig. Ljv Cut of stealers handes. Hang vp theues and robbers. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. viii. 381 The cause why the stealer stole, was want of labouring in his calling. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 528/1 Mango,..a stealer away of mens children of seruants that selleth and buyeth them. 1649 J. Owen Serm. H. of C., Of Toleration 44 If so, why doe Adulterers unmolested, behold the violent death of Stealers. 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere II. i. xv. 157 A Chief..whose father's name was Pahairedo, the stealer of boats. 1829 J. Bentham Justice & Codification Petitions iii. 29 The authority, from which the power was thus filched, was..that of some judge or judges, co-ordinate with that of the stealers. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. v. 45 Older than thou, the stealer of the fire! b. slang. the ten stealers: the fingers. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > finger > [noun] fingerOE talons1594 nimblesa1637 the ten stealers1655 Welsh comb1788 forks1819 hooks1829 fingerlet1836 bread hook1845 dactyl1889 grab-hook1946 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 323 By these pickers and stealers. View more context for this quotation] 1655 R. Davenport King Iohn & Matilda iii. sig. E2 Since they have neither eaten bit, nor drunk drop, nor by these ten stealers shall not, till I heare againe from my Lord. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). stealern.2 Nautical. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > each continuous line of planking > others standing strake1607 garboardc1617 bottom planks1724 stealer1805 stealing-strake1830 futtock-plank1846 bilge-plank1867 bottom boarding1869 1805 Shipwright's Vade-mecum 201 It is therefore customary to work, in the bow of such ships, a steeler next under the wale. 1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Steeler, in ship-building, the foremost or aftmost plank in a strake, which is dropped short of the stem or stern-post. 1852 J. Fincham Outl. Ship Building (ed. 3) ii. 26 These planks are called steelers. 1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 50 The last plank of the strake which does not extend right forward or aft, as the case may be, is termed a ‘stealer’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11508n.21805 |
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