单词 | boxmaster |
释义 | > as lemmasboxmaster boxmaster n. Scottish (now chiefly historical) a treasurer of a guild, corporation, or society. ΚΠ 1646 in J. S. Dobie Munim. Irvine (1891) II. 64 To elect..ane boxmaister to ilk severall craft to keip our boxis. 1873 Contemp. Rev. 21 741 The treasurer of an ordinary Friendly Society, in Scotland, is sometimes its ‘box-master’. 1885 D. Beveridge Culross & Tulliallan II. 155 The privilege of having a deacon and box master of their own. 1949 Courier & Advertiser (Dundee) 31 May 3/6 Urquhart..was appointed interim boxmaster. 2013 Sc. Hist. Rev. 92 238 In Kirkcudbright,..there were several efforts in the later eighteenth century to eliminate the custom whereby newly-elected deacons and boxmasters of trades held parades. < as lemmas |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。