| 释义 |
fueller Now rare.|ˈfjuːələ(r)|
[f. fuel v. + -er1.]
One who or that which supplies fuel for fires. Also, the domestic who makes the fires, and fig.
14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 688/32 Hic focarius, a fewyller. 1483Cath. Angl. 145/1 Fueller (A. Feweller), focarius. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Leñador, a fueller, a wood carrier. 1601Chettle & Munday Death Earl of Huntington i. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 235 See the fueller Suffer the cook to want no wood. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 738 Let vs see what fine fuellers they be in the Popes kichen that they can make the Purgatorie fire so cunningly. 1647C. Harvey Sch. Heart (Grosart) 122 See how hell's fueller his bellowes plies Blowing the fire that burnt too fast before. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xiv. 313/2 The Carmen..were incorporated with the people called Fuellers by the name of woodmongers. 1892Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 5 May, The fuelers..desire to help the cargo loaders. |