单词 | woader |
释义 | woadern. Somewhat rare. Now historical. (a) A cultivator of woad. (b) A person engaged in dyeing with woad.Attested earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > woad > woad-grower woader1248 the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > woad > dyer with woad woader1248 1248 Close Rolls Henry III (1922) VI. 120 Abbatissa de Godestow attornavit loco suo Thomam Wauder in assisa nove disseisine. 1290 in P. H. Reaney & R. M. Wilson Dict. Brit. Surnames (1976) 367 Thorald de Cawston, le Wader. 1416 Rolls of Parl.: Henry V (Electronic ed.) Parl. Mar. 1416 §21. m. 8 Deux drapers, un woder, et un tinctour. 1424 Will of John Rouwe (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/3) f. 37 Tinctor siue Woder. 1616 T. Gainsford Rich Cabinet f. 55v To goe afield with victuals to his woaders or weeders. 1705 tr. Whole Art of Dying vi. 207 The Corporation of Dyers at Rovan having been always divided into three different functions, viz. in Woaders, Madderers and Blackers or dyers of black. 1830 Withering's Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 7) III. 752 The gangs of people called Woaders, who make the culture of this herb their peculiar employment. 1889 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 813 Woad, the common dye-stuff, was provided by the Woader or Woadman. 1903 A. Dryden Memorials Old Northants. 12 In the earlier part of the nineteenth century there were still wad grounds..round Hardingstone, and huts which the wadders lived in during the summer, while the work went on of growing the crop, cutting the leaves, and grinding them into a paste. 2008 I. Pattinson Lyttelton's Brit. (2009) 113 With only primitive equipment, the ‘woaders’ as they were known, had to compress layers of cloth into vats of dye using their body weight, by sitting on the top. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1248 |
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