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单词 deviller
释义 deviller|ˈdɛv(ə)lə(r)|
[f. devil + -er1.]
a. The workman who attends to the machine called a ‘devil’ in a cotton or other factory.
b. The name of a machine used for the shaking of rags.
c. A ‘devil’ or literary hack.
1874Manch. Guardian 3 Aug. 6 The term is applied to those persons who tend hard-waste breakers in cotton manufactories. The machines are termed devils, and in this district the person who tends them a deviller.1885Leeds Mercury 23 June 3 A rag-shaking machine called a ‘deviller’.1893Athenæum 5 Aug. 182/1 Sometimes the delver, or ‘deviller’, nods.
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