| 释义 |
ˈrockman
[rock n.1]
1. Sc. One who takes birds on rocks or cliffs.
1825Jamieson Suppl., Rockman, a bird catcher, Orkn.; so named from the hazardous nature of his employment, being often suspended from the top of a perpendicular rock.
2. In slate quarries, a skilled workman who gets out the slate rock.
1865J. Bower Slate Quarries 20 The rockman..gets the blocks in the quarry, and splits them..ready to be carried out to the sawing machinery. 1884Christian World 11 Sept. 678/5 As to rockmen and labourers, they are wanted by the hundred. 1892Min. Evid. Labour Comm. Group A. II. 2 He [sc. a rubbisher] is the man who carries away all the material from the rock-men to the place where the slates are made. |