单词 | wirer |
释义 | wirern. A person who wires (in various senses of the verb); (now) esp. a person whose job involves electrical wiring. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > pickpocket or cutpurse > [noun] > pickpocket fig-boyc1555 foister1585 foist1591 pickpocket1591 bung1600 diver1608 pocket-picker1622 pocketeerc1626 bung-nipper1659 file1673 filer1674 shark1707 hoister1708 knuckle1781 knuckler1801 buzzgloak1819 cly-faker1819 fingersmith1819 knuck1819 fogle hunter1821 buzzman1832 nobbler1839 wire1851 gonoph1853 wirer1857 dip1859 moll-tooler1859 buzzer1862 hook1863 snotter1864 tool1865 pocket-cutter1885 dipper1889 pogue-hunter1896 pick1902 finger1925 whizz1925 whizzer1925 prat diggera1931 whizz-boy1931 whizz-man1932 reefer1935 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > hunter using traps snarer1597 trapper1768 nooser1859 wirer1864 trappist1880 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making headgear > [noun] > hat-making > processes involved in > one who little master1806 pouncer1868 planker?1881 wirer?1881 stiffener1892 pelt-shaker1902 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who cork bottles corker?1881 wirer1901 society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > [noun] > telegraph operator telegrapher1794 telegraphist1817 puncher1876 key worker1884 sounder1887 cabler1890 space-telegrapher1899 Marconist?1900 key man1901 wireless operator1902 wirer1916 ham1919 1824 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 13 Mar. 668 The nobility and gentry..will now be the only wirers [sc. setters of snares] in the country. 1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ Vulgar Tongue 24 Wirer, pickpocket. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 76 The nightly wirer of their innocent hare. ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 74 Straw Hat and Bonnet Making:..Presser, Liner, Wirer. 1901 Daily Chron. 10 Sept. 9/1 Mineral Water Trade.—Wanted..wirers, and bottlers. 1916 Blackwood's Mag. Aug. 264/1 The wirers..began..to panic terribly, in code. 1953 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 53 1225/3 Of those who failed to meet the visual standard,..38 percent were wirers, and 43 percent were assemblers. 1978 R. Doliner On Edge xv. 213 He had the name of the wirer: Elias... If they'd brought in Elias, it was to wire explosives. 1993 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 15 Nov. f1 Theriault, 34, a former barmaid, started work as a wirer of electronic industrial-system control panels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1824 |
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