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单词 sweeper caste
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sweeper caste
a. A person employed in sweeping a room, chimney, house, ship, etc.; spec. in India, a person of the lowest caste. Also in combination, as chimney-sweeper n., crossing-sweeper n. at crossing n. Compounds 2. Also attributive as sweeper caste.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > brushing or sweeping > [noun] > one who or that which > as occupation
sweeper1657
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [adjective] > belonging to low Hindu caste
pariah1711
sweeper1837
low-caste1894
Panchama1898
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > member of any low Hindu caste > member of specific low Hindu caste
Kunbi1598
pariah1613
Shudra1630
Vaishya1665
chuckler1759
bhangi1823
Kori1839
Mahar1855
sweeper1859
Kola1873
Sansi1882
Panchama1893
untouchable1909
Harijan1931
Scheduled Caste1935
Dalit1948
Scheduled Tribe1957
1657 J. Watts Scribe, Pharisee i. 267 Those chimney houses, so foul, and black, and sooty, that they need the sweeper to come to them quickly.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 76 The four private Sweepers [in the papal household].
1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal iii. i. 12 Hybreas the Oratour, in lineaments of Face and whole Body was so peer'd by the sweeper of his School, as [etc.].
1713 T. Parkyns Inn-play Pref. sig. A2 A Sweeper and Pump Dresser to a Fencing School.
1715 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 47 A Woman and a Girl..not sworn or admitted to be Sweepers.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Balayeur The swabber or sweeper of a ship, usually called captain's swabber.
1790 Laws of Harvard Coll. 58 The Steward shall also engage proper sweepers for the Colleges.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 82 Whose rhymes are so bad, he was never yet able To serve as last sweeper in Pegasus' stable.
1844 W. H. Sleeman Rambles & Recoll. I. viii. 64 The right of sweeping within a certain range is recognised by the caste to belong to a certain member... If any house-keeper..happens to offend the sweeper..none of his filth will be removed.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 259 Two sweepers—men of the lowest caste of Hindoos.
1861 Macmillan's Mag. Feb. 268/2 The rooms [in an American College] were supposed to be taken care of by three or four men called ‘sweepers’, whose duty extended only to making the beds daily, and sweeping the rooms occasionally.
attributive.1828 M. M. Sherwood Poor Burruff (ed. 2) 11 Marten, who sent the sweeper-man immediately to the poor dog, to remove the arrow.1837 Lett. from Madras (1843) x. 89 He kept no sweeper-woman, and, as may be supposed, the dirt crunched under our feet as we walked.1859 Mrs. R. M. Coopland Lady's Escape from Gwalior iii. 58 Matrané, a woman of the sweeper caste.1909 J. Hastings Encycl. Relig. II. 551/2 The sweeper or scavenger caste of Hindustan.
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