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单词 ditcher
释义 ditcher|ˈdɪtʃə(r)|
[f. ditch v.1 + -er1.]
1. One who makes and repairs ditches.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (1840) 211 (Mätz.) Dichers, delverys, that greet travaylle endure.1464Mann. & Househ. Exp. 261 My mastyr payed to John Wodeman, the dycher, iij.s. iiij.d.1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 33 There is no ancient Gentlemen, but Gardiners, Ditchers and Graue⁓makers; they hold vp Adams Profession.1730Swift Panegyrick on Dean 156 Our thatcher, ditcher, gard'ner, baily.1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. ii. §1 The hedgers and ditchers who made the fences..for the protection of the crop.
2. A machine used to make ditches; a ditching-machine.
1846Rep. Comm. Patents (U.S. Pat. Off.) (1847) 256 Having thus fully described my improved ditcher what I claim therein as new..is [etc.].1862Times 12 June, In addition to the agricultural machines..a ditcher, which will cut a ditch of any depth or width, lift out the earth, and deposit it in any given place.1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 711 A rotary ditcher.
attrib.1887Sci. Amer. 30 July 74/1 A combined cultivator and potato digger..It has a plow or ditcher shovel formed from a plate of metal.
3. (See quot. 1890.)
1877A. Arnold Through Persia II. xiv. 251 Huge iron vessels, long and narrow, built for the Suez Canal, and locally known as ‘ditchers’.1884Pall Mall G. 19 Nov. 1/2 In time of war the ‘ditchers’ would be bound to coal..at Sierra Leone.1890New Rev. Feb. 153 Steamers specially built for the passage of the Suez Canal, and hence called ‘Ditchers’.
4. A bowl which runs or is driven off the green. Cf. ditch n.1 1 d.
1886T. Taylor Rules of Bowling 17 A bowl which runs off the green..and which has not previously touched the jack, is called a ‘ditcher’, and must be immediately removed to the bank.1948G. T. Burrows All about Bowls xiv. 86 Ditcher, a bowl that runs on into the ditch or is driven there or is turned quickly into the pebbles, for reasons of strategy.
5. A resident in Calcutta (cf. ditch n.1 1 c). slang.
1886[see ditch n.1 1 c].1909Westm. Gaz. 17 June 8/1 The existence of the unfortunate ditchers left to themselves in the off season.1923United Free Ch. Miss. Rec. June 248/1 Residents in Calcutta are sometimes referred to..as ‘Ditchers’.
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