单词 | waller |
释义 | wallern.1 One who builds walls (see quot. 1908). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls wallerc1440 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 514/1 Wallare, murator, machio. Wallare, þat werkythe wythe stone and morter, cementarius. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. i. 12 Fra quhame..Come..the valleris of greit Rome. c1565 in 14th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS App. III. 30 Four masones and viij wallaris: viij quariouris. 1612 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1884) I. 253 Oswald Collyson waller or rough mason. 1683 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 341 To the wallers for work and plastering, 1 l. 2 s. 1890 Lincoln Gaz. 30 Aug. 4/1 Choppers, Wallers, and Masons for Ancaster Stone Wanted. 1908 J. B. Turnbull Reminisc. Stonemason 89 He himself was what is called a ‘waller’—that is, he did not dress stones, but set them on the walls when dressed, or else built walls of rough, unhewn stone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wallern.2 In the Cheshire salt-works, a brine-boiler, a worker who attends to the salt-pans. Also lead-waller (cf. lead-walling n. at lead n.1 Compounds 3a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > salt-worker weller1440 salt-maker1483 saliner1543 waller1600 salter1606 saltweller1624 wich-waller1670 salt-worker1680 brine-manc1682 brinerc1682 wich-man1688 1600 W. Camden Britannia (new ed.) 543 & muliercule (Wallers vocant) rastellis ligneis é fundo salem educunt. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Lead-wallers, commonly abbreviated to Wallers. Waller, a salt-maker or boiler. At present the men call boilers those who make stoved and butter-salt, and the others wallers. 1892 Labour Commission Gloss. Waller, a local term, applied to salt boilers, i.e., those who look after the boiling of the salt. It is applied to the men who look after the making of any white salt, whether the pan is required to boil or not. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wallern.3 1. A wall-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > cultivated or valued > [noun] > fruit-tree > wall-tree or standard standard1625 wall-tree1653 stander1660 espalier1664 wall-fruit1669 mural1684 waller1688 wall1707 cordon1878 spalliard1888 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 87/1 Wall-Trees, called Wallers, are such as are planted at Wall sides, and are pinned up to the Wall. ΚΠ 1578 [see wallership n. at Derivatives]. 3. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > lawyer > [noun] > casually employed law-writer waller1904 1904 Daily Chron. 15 Apr. 8/2 ‘Wallers’..are men who find casual employment as law-writers, and have been facetiously christened ‘wallers’, because they are generally to be found lounging against a wall in Cursitor-street waiting on an engagement. 1908 Daily Chron. 3 July 6/7 ‘Waller,’ as applied to a man who does law writing... They were called ‘wallers’, as a term of contempt, by the regular writers. Derivatives wallership n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > official in charge of upkeep of walls > office of wallership1578 1578 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 264 Keeper of the Walles, alias wallership; fee 2. 5. 4. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1c1440n.21600n.31578 |
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