单词 | stone-cutter |
释义 | stone-cuttern. 1. a. One who cuts or carves stone; a workman engaged in shaping stone for building, ornamental, or other purposes; one who carves figures or inscriptions on stone. stone-cutter's disease or phthisis, an affection of the lungs, incident to stone-cutters, caused by inhaling the fine dust of the stones. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > disorders of lungs > caused by dust or fibre stone-cutter's disease or phthisis1540 phthisis1821 black lung1837 anthracosis1838 shoddy fever1851 potter's consumption1863 siderosis1869 collier's phthisis1871 iron lung1872 chalicosis1878 pneumonoconiosis1878 tabacosis1879 byssinosis1881 pneumoconiosis1881 silicosis1881 potter's rot1895 fur-fever1905 stonemason's lung1905 asbestosis1927 anthracosilicosis1929 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis1935 bagassosis1941 bagasse1943 berylliosis1943 thesaurosis1958 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with stone > [noun] > who cuts or dresses stone stone-cutter1540 stone-squarer1611 lapicide1656 scabbler1843 hearthstone maker1844 stone-dresser1858 block-chopper1883 1540 in J. Gairdner & R. H. Brodie Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1898) (modernized text) XVI. 195 Dirrike Johnson, stone cutter. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 505/1 Lapicida,..a quarrier: a hewer of stone: a stone cutter. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 56 A Stone-cutter, or a Painter could not haue made him so ill. View more context for this quotation 1684 R. Boyle Exper. Porosity of Bodies vi. 101 The invention of staining or colouring white Marble,..casually lighted upon by an ingenious Stone-cutter in Oxford. 1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. iii. 69 This Island [sc. Portland]..the Inhabitants being almost all Stone-Cutters, we found there was no very poor People among them. 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries 131 The old Inscription was almost effaced, when two of the parish servants..paid a stone cutter to sink the letters. 1877 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest (1894) iv. 47 Desiring to show, not a mere symbol of a living man, but the man himself, as truly as the poor stone-cutter can carve him. 1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 186 Chalicosis pulmonum is the name given to the pulmonary changes induced by the inhalation of stone-dust. It is also called stone-cutter's phthisis. 1896 W. K. Leask H. Miller ii. 44 He was feeling the first effects of the stone-cutters' disease. 1908 W. M. Ramsay Luke xii. 362 Then I conjecture that..the stone-cutter accidentally omitted the fourth hexameter. b. A machine for cutting or shaping stone. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > others ripper1659 Mohock1721 pinking iron1761 stock knife1799 sapper1822 ice plough1830 race knife1832 dresser1860 race-tool1867 pen-maker1875 stone-cutter1875 twinning-machine1875 nail cutter1876 paper cutter1880 guillotine1883 miller1890 flaker1891 undercutter1891 race1904 lino-cutter1907 gang mower1917 go-devil1918 rotary cutter1936 stripping-bill1968 fragmentizer1972 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stone-cutter, a machine for working a face on a stone or ashlar... It differs from the stone-dresser, which may be said to begin its duty after the surface is fairly flattened. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 867/1 Atchison's stone cutter. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > surgeon > [noun] > performing specific operations > on the bladder stone-cutter1655 lithotomist1663 lithotriptist1836 lithotritist1836 grinder1846 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. xv. 130 No people in the world are more subject [than the Netherlanders] to that disease [sc. stone], as the number and excellency of stone-cutters in that Country may plainly prove. 1788 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 78 32 The Egyptians..had..not only regular physicians..but likewise stone-cutters, oculists, aurists, &c. Derivatives ˈstone-ˌcutting n. the process or art of cutting or shaping stone; also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > in specific materials or methods stone-cutting1611 fretting1614 masonry1686 high relief1703 phelloplastic1802 wood-carving1847 photosculpture1861 gem-sculpture1882 chip carving1883 stone-craft1903 soft sculpture1966 earthwork1968 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > cutting stone stereotomy1728 stone-cutting1828 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Statuaire, (the art of) Stone-cutting, or Statue-making. 1828 P. Nicholson (title) A popular..treatise on Masonry and Stone-cutting. 1838 H. Martineau Retrospect of Western Trav. I. 225 The stone-cutting department. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasstone-cutter c. In many combinations, as fustian-cutter, stone-cutter, wood-cutter, etc.: see these words. < n.1540 as lemmas |
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