| 单词 | carriage cleaner |
| 释义 | > as lemmascarriage cleaner b. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which carriage expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in carriage builder, carriage building, carriage cleaner, carriage driver, carriage painter, etc. See also carriage maker n. at Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1645 J. Vicars Gods Arke 278 The totall number that we could reckon and find to be slain in all our Armies was at most, but between 2 and 300, of which our greatest number was among them who ran away, and the carriage-keepers. 1775 tr. Valuable Secrets concerning Arts & Trades 93 To paint in varnish on wood. (Useful to Carriage Painters). 1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages 158 Few carriage builders care to introduce anything new. 1866 G. D. Warry Law of Railway Rating 267 The wages of guards, conductors, travelling interpreters, switchmen, policemen, carriage cleaners. 1868 Illustr. Trade Price List Artists' Materials (Janentzky & Weber) 61 Brushes for fresco, sign and carriage painting. 1912 Hub July 116/2 Considerable knowledge is necessary in the selection of hides suitable for carriage building. 1998 Carriage Driving Aug. 42/2 Today's carriage builders are producing vehicles to suit our requirements—but with the advantage of modern materials and technology. 2002 C. C. Jones Year Russ. Feasts (2003) 95 These nineteenth-century establishments catered exclusively to men and were divided into two classes, one for wealthy merchants and the other for their carriage drivers. < as lemmas |
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