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单词 waler
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walern.1

/ˈweɪlə/
Etymology: < wale v.1 + -er suffix1.
1. Coal Mining. (See quots.)
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who clears debris
reddsman1672
waler1825
coal picker1905
gummer1921
1825 E. Mackenzie Hist. View Northumberland (ed. 2) I. 91 Wailers are boys employed to pick out slate, pyrites, and other foul admixtures from the coal.
1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Newcastle Terms) Waler, boys who pick the refuse from the good coals.
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2. ‘A handloom silk-weaving term: a man employed to determine the number of “picks” in a piece and to see that uniformity is maintained’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.). Obsolete.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

Walern.2

/ˈweɪlə/
Forms: Also waler.
Etymology: < Wale-s (for New South Wales) + -er suffix1.
1. Anglo-Indian. A horse imported from Australia, esp. from New South Wales. Also, a type of light Australian horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [noun] > miscellaneous breeds
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Narragansett pacer1777
Suffolk punch1784
Nubian1790
Cleveland bay1796
cob1818
Conestoga1824
marsh tacky1826
Narragansett1826
Russian pony1829
Clydesdale1831
Turkoman1831
Morgan1841
tarpan1841
Waler1849
Percheron1855
Canuck1860
Anglo-Arabian1864
Anglo-Arab1869
Belgium1878
Palouse1881
standardbred1888
Belgium draught horse1889
saddlebred1891
Timor pony1895
Haflinger1899
Argentine1901
Belgian1907
palomino1914
Appaloosa1924
Trakehner1926
Lipizzaner1928
Tennessee walking horse1938
Bhotia1939
cremello1944
Akhal-Teke1947
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Tennessee walker1960
Falabella1977
1849 New S. Wales vii. 65 The colonial-bred horses or Walers, as they are called in India.
1888 R. Kipling Rout of White Hussars in Plain Tales from Hills 197 The Drum-Horse..is nearly always a big pie-bald Waler.
1897 ‘R. Boldrewood’ My Run Home xxxiv. 330 ‘I can't imagine any thing but the English thoroughbred worthy to be named in the same day with a high-caste Arab.’.. ‘I'll show you a Waler to-morrow that may convert you.’
1900 H. Lawson Ballad of Cornstalk in Coll. Verse (1967) I. 380 He mounted his waler and rode to the sea (He was sick of the Bush and he longed for a spree).
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 71 Waler, originally a horse exported from New South Wales to India (in modern times, a light type of army horse used in Australia).
1963 Weekly News (Auckland) 8 May 38/4 The farm hack is a multi-breed horse—a dash of cob, a little thoroughbred, maybe a touch of the Australian ‘waler’ whose ancestry lies with Dutch and Spanish strains.
1968 J. Kiddell Euloowirree Walkabout (1970) xiii. 123 Lord, he exulted, but he's a fast horse. A Waler. One of the descendants of the bush-bred stock, the thoroughbreds of the Outback.
attributive.1873 Madras Mail 25 June For sale, a brown Waler gelding.1888 R. Kipling Rout of White Hussars in Plain Tales from Hills 199 Yale had a big, old, white Waler trap-horse.
2. (With capital initial.) A native of New South Wales (or of Australia generally). slang.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Antipodes > native or inhabitant of Australia > [noun] > parts of
bushboya1834
Melbournite1838
Melburnian1838
bushman1846
Vandemonian1852
scrubber1859
Queenslander1860
Victorian1862
Sydneysider1865
Centralian1875
Waler1880
Territorian1882
mutton-bird1892
bushy1896
sand-groper1896
tothersider1896
crow-eater1899
Bananalander1900
outbacker1900
Tassie1905
groper1924
Tasmanian1934
mutton-bird eater1941
Top-Ender1941
Kanakalander1945
1880 J. Inglis Our Austral. Cousins xiii. 159 In the matter of awnings and verandahs the ‘Walers’ had a grand chance for a bright, cheerful..display.
1924 G. H. A. Willis Royal Navy as I saw It 270 We left the Oceana, which continued her voyage to Australia with the ‘Walers’ (as the Australian passengers were called).
1949 Geogr. Mag. Feb. 373 Sydneysider or Waler, a resident of New South Wales.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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