单词 | train boy |
释义 | > as lemmastrain boy train boy n. now historical (a) (U.S. and Canadian) a boy selling newspapers, etc., on a railway train; (b) Coal Mining a boy accompanying a train in a mine to assist with its running. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of bawdy-basket1567 ballad-monger1598 land-pirate1608 map-monger1639 bookwoman1647 mercury1648 second-hand bookseller1656 Bible-seller1707 map-seller1710 stall-man1761 book auctioneer1776 scrap-monger1786 colporteur1796 death-hunter1851 train boy1852 speech-crier1856 roarer1865 looker-out1894 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc. coal putter1708 foal1770 onsetter1789 putter1812 headsman1813 trapper1815 thruster1825 trammer1839 train boy1852 tram1856 hanger-on1858 tipper1861 hooker-on?1881 jiggerer?1881 hitcher1890 tub-loader1891 haulier1892 tilter1892 unhooker1892 flatter1894 jagger1900 thrutcher1901 tram-boy1904 filler1921 1852 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 23 Aug. The train-boy undertook to fill his lamp from a large can of camphine. 1854 Minutes of Evid. 82 in First Rep. Select Comm. Accidents Coal Mines (House of Commons) The signals directed by the ‘viewer,’ must be given by the ‘train boy’. 1872 Harper's Mag. Mar. 638/2 He was going down to St. Paul to join the session, when a train-boy passed through the car. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 10/2 Scarcely any observer has omitted to complain of the importunities of the train-boy [on American railways], with his merchandise of bananas and candies and chewing gum and dime novels. 1930 Classified Index Occupations Fifteenth Census (U.S. Bureau of Census) 41/2 (table) Train boy, coal mine. 1994 R. Paige Death at Bishop's Keep ii. 5 Frank Leslie, whose Popular Monthly was hawked by every train boy on every railway in the country. < as lemmas |
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