| 单词 | to trade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto trade In to name (obsolete), to trade, etc. (Scottish and northern dialect), now expressed by ‘by’.extracted from toprep.conj.adv.to (one's) trade c. Scottish. to (one's) trade: = by trade at Phrases 1a. ΚΠ 1719 Life J. Sharp 107 His Father was but a Baxter to his Trade, and of small Means. 1775 J. Howie Biographia Scoticana 439 Andrew Renwick (a weaver to trade). 1826 Cottage Reg. Mar. 49 Duncan M'Donald, a blacksmith to trade, while engaged in a drunken frolic, enlisted for a soldier. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xv. 167 Tod was a wabster to his trade. 1905 W. Skene E. Neuk Chron. xi. 99/2 One of the boats was owned and skippered by Jack Gall, a plumber to trade. 2014 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 19 Oct. I come from a working class family. My father was an electrician to trade. < as lemmas |
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