| 单词 | union boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasunion boy d. In sense 15a, with the sense ‘of, belonging to, or supported by a parish union’, as union boy, union officer, etc. Now historical. ΚΠ 1835 Morning Post 4 Dec. Let them let their premises for a bazaar, a national dairy, or a union poor-house under the new Poor Law Act. 1846 (title) The Union and Parish Officer's pocket almanac and guide. 1859 J. H. Steggall Real Hist. Suffolk Man i. 29 I was worse than any union boy with his hair polled. 1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 303 He's out o' the Union... The Union men break the stones on the roads. 1946 J. Masefield Poems 87 With the Union boys he came and went, A parish bastard fed on bread and tea. 2006 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 45 72 [She] applied to her Union poor law officials for financial relief in April 1871. < as lemmas |
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