单词 | want-catcher |
释义 | > as lemmaswant-catcher C1. Objective with agent nouns and verbal nouns, as want-catcher, want-catching, want-killer, want-taker, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > hunter of specific animal > [noun] > of moles mole seeker?1518 mole-taker?1518 want-catcher1533 want-killer1533 want-taker1533 mole-catcher1573 wanter1657 mowdie-man1824 mowdie1828 molie1871 moler1886 1533 in J. Gairdner Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1882) VI. 392 [Deposition of John Shubrocke, of Northover], wanttaker. 1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros ii. viii. 32 Walking the fieldes a wantcatcher I spide. 1610 R. Vaughan Most Approved Water-workes R 2 Were it not for my brauing-trench and my stankes, I should neuer need the vse of a Want-killer. 1667 Georgical Acct. Devonshire & Cornwall in Rep. & Trans. Devon Assoc. Adv. Sci. Lit. & Art (1964) 96 295 For wants, or moles, we have want-catchers, (a profession) and set our want traps. 1786 in F. D. Price Wigginton Constables' Bk. (1971) 86 Paid Parsons for wont catching. 1872 F. Kilvert Diary 24 Apr. (1944) 174 His son the wantcatcher was very good to him. 1938 E. W. Swanton Country Notes & Nature Cal. iii. 19 In rural parts of Somerset and Dorset..the professional mole trapper was always known as a want-catcher. A curious punning epitaph to a want-catcher..recorded that ‘He wanted all his life, And yet by wanting His wants were all supplied’. 1971 F. D. Price Wigginton Constables' Bk. p. xxvi The parish maintained a ‘crow-keeper’ to scare off the birds..; and a mole or ‘want’ catcher was also employed. < as lemmas |
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