| 单词 | water merchant |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater merchant water merchant n. (a) a merchant who sells or distributes goods by boat; (b) a purveyor or supplier of water. ΚΠ 1653 E. Lee Legenda Lignea xxxviii. 174 This Secular, studies most in Cabarets and Taverns, is the companion of Water-Merchants, Crochettiers, and Porters [etc.]. 1717 W. C. Hydro-sidereon 35 Prevent those Cheats, which Foreign Water-Merchants may impose upon us. 1807 J. Carr Tour through Holland xv. 274 There are water-merchants, who are constantly occupied in supplying the city with drinkable water. 1859 W. M. Wood Fankwei viii. 71 The bumboat man is the most useful of all these water merchants... His boat is the peddling shop, the corner grocery to the people shut up on board the ship. 1902 Out West Mar. 329 The control of the stream goes into the hands of those who treat it as a merchantable commodity—water merchants who sell the melting snows. 1990 R. R. Covell Mission Impossible iii. 37 The water merchants..came up to the boat, using long bamboo poles with a hook on one end to cling to the ship's side, while they tried to sell their wares. 2014 Times (National ed.) (Nexis) 23 June 35 The wealthy can..install 5,000-litre plastic tanks, which are filled by freelance water merchants running fleets of trucks. < as lemmas |
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