单词 | wracker |
释义 | wrackern.1 rare. One who wrecks, ruins, or subverts. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ruineur, a ruiner, wracker, spoyler. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online January 2018). † wrackern.2 Obsolete. rare. = wraker n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > [noun] > one who perverts adulterer?c1430 writher1498 perverter?a1500 wrester1533 corruptera1538 wringerc1560 racker1565 wreather1566 hackera1603 wracker1719 torturer1830 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > maintenance of standards > person employed in searcher1417 conner1467 policiera1500 cunster1535 wraker1584 wracker1719 sampler1778 overhauler1860 fruit-meter1881 quality controller1947 1584 Sc. Acts, Jas. VI III. (1814) 302 [To] appoint ane discrete man to be visitour, wraker [v.r. wracker], gager, and birnar of the saidis treis.] 1719 in Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scot. (1885) V. 217 By means of wrackers of herrings to be imported there. 1719 in Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scot. (1885) V. 217 To appoint..ane overseer of these wrackers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2018). wrackern.3 rare. One who collects wrack, vraic, or seaweed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > seaweed-gathering > seaweed-gatherer wracker1833 vraicker1835 1833 Fraser's Mag. 7 293 The Norman wrackers, as they gathered sea-weed on the beach. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.11611n.21719n.31833 |
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