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单词 tributor
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tributortributern.

/ˈtrɪbjuːtə/
Forms: Also (Middle English -ir), Middle English–1500s -our, 1500s tribitour.
Etymology: < tribute v. (or ? n.) + -or suffix, -our suffix (after agent-nouns from Latin or French), and -er suffix1 (on English analogies). Compare rare late Latin tribūtor one who gives.
1. One who pays tribute. Also figurative. Obsolete.
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1483 Cath. Angl. 393/2 A Tributir, tributarius.
1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces iii. sig. V.1 That the cytes that Lucius Scylla made fre..shulde be tributers agayne.
a1549 A. Borde Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) xxiv. 181 I am a Venesien..For part of my possession, I am come tributor to the Turke.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 60 The prouince of Santon 3. millions and 700. thousand tributers.
1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. E5v The mighty Silver-river..His tributorie sandes to him reveal'd; Nor sdained it to be a tributour, Vnto the Oceans mighty Emperour.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 370* Unlesse he were a yeerly Tributer or Chenser, hee was forced to pay a grievous Fine.
2. A giver, bestower. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > giver
givera1300
bringera1400
donatorc1449
administerer1464
donora1513
tributor1548
administrator1561
accorder1861
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lv Almightie God geuer & tributor of this glorious victory.
3. Mining. A miner who works ‘on tribute’: see tribute n. 3c.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > other specific mine workers
chipper1747
blaster1776
tributor1778
striker1824
shifter1830
bandsman1852
back-shift1860
drifter1864
metal man1883
stower1886
wagoner1886
hard rock1922
beacher1923
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 188 The Tributor..has several persons concerned with him.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 330/1 Tribute, [called] a Cope [in] North of England, a consideration or share of the produce of a Mine either in money or kind..paid by the Takers or Tributors to the original Adventurers or owners, for the liberty granted to the Takers of enjoying the Mine, or a part thereof, called a Pitch, for a limited time.
1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 147 The ore sold for £182:2:2, and, as the tribute was 7s. 6d. in the pound, the share for the tributers was £68:5:9.
1875 Melbourne Spectator 29 May 46/1 A fight between the few Europeans employed on the works and the Chinese tributers.
1877 Encycl. Brit. VI. 218/1 Capitalists, landowners, inventors, Cornish tributers..are all brought under the stimulating influence of self-interest.
1886 N.Z. Herald 1 June 6/7 Tributes were let to several parties, whose contributions to the company during the year amounted to £153 19s. 6d. The receipts showed calls to be £1573 4s., tributers £153 19s. 6d., sundries (such as crushing, interest, and overdraft) £47 9s. 6d.: total, £1774 13s.
1902 Daily Record (Glasgow) 1 Oct. 4 The concessions by the late Boer Government..have got into hands so grasping that their excessive terms to tributors for water-rights and power have kept a large area of these fields fallow.
1911 C. Boyd in United Empire July 393 The Tributor is a small goldminer..paying tribute on his holding.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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