| 释义 |
kettler, ketler
[f. kettle + -er1.]
†1. One who mends or repairs kettles, a tinker. Obs.
1604T. M. Black Bk. in Middleton's Wks. (1840) V. 543, I would have the sometimes go disguised (in honest apparel), and so drawing in amongst bunglers and ketlers, under the plain frieze of simplicity [etc.].
2. A colour-mixer's assistant who attends to the boiling of dyestuffs.
1921in Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §381. 1960 Classification of Occupations (General Register Office) 51/2 Kettler..106 [dyers of textiles]. |