单词 | sweeper caste |
释义 | > as lemmassweeper 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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