单词 | chaser |
释义 | chasern.1 1. a. One who chases or hunts; a hunter of. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] huntc1000 huntera1325 cacherec1340 pricasourc1387 waithmanc1425 chaser1470 huntsman1567 pricker1575 Nimrod1623 venator1656 fieldmana1683 sportsman1699 coureur de bois1700 sporting parson1757 chasseur1796 jäger1823 shikari1827 venerer1845 hunting-man1859 gamer1887 hunterman1891 veldman1895 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur viii. i As king Meliodas rode on hunting, for he was a great chaser. 1686 in Miscellanea Curiosa (Royal Soc.) (1707) III. 187 The poor Creatures tired with the violence of their Coursing, came and fell down at the Feet of their Chasers. 1713 A. Pope Windsor-Forest 4 At once the Chaser and at once the Prey. 1853 W. C. Bryant Catterskill Falls 290 There pass the chasers of seal and whale. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting chasera1300 hunter1687 huntress1858 a1300 Signs bef. Judgm. 110 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 10 Palfrei, chasur, no no stede. c1314 Guy Warw. (A) 3210 At his in he tok a chasour. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. lii. 145 The Reliefe of an Earle, 8. Horses..4. Chasers, 1. Palfray, bridled and sadled. c. A horse trained for steeple-chasing. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > in specific kind of race plate horse1740 flat1811 mile-horse1829 steeplechaser1839 plater1859 all-ages1864 trace-mate1880 chaser1884 flat-racer1886 handicapper1890 miler1894 point-to-pointer1929 1884 Illustr. Sporting & Dramatic News 16 Feb. 563/3 A famous trainer and rider of chasers. 2. a. One who pursues (esp. with hostile intent). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [noun] > pursuit > pursuer pursuandc1350 pursuera1382 suera1425 followera1450 chaser1487 courser1590 pursuant1593 prosecutor1598 questrist1608 dogger1611 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 439 The chassaris [1489 Adv. chaseris]..ourtuk sum at the last. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxii. 167 He in chase the chaser cannot fly. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 40 Then beganne A stop i'th'Chaser; a Retyre. View more context for this quotation 1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 118 My chasers, that pursued when no man fled. b. One who chases women, a woman-chaser. Chiefly U.S. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women > one who horlinga1200 holourc1230 whore-mana1325 putourc1390 putroura1425 whoremastera1425 whoremonger?a1472 putyer1477 whoredomerc1485 holarda1500 whore-keeper1530 mutton-monger1532 smell-smock?1545 stallion1553 woman-louper1568 limb-lifter1579 Lusty Laurence1582 punker1582 wencher1593 womanist1608 belly-bumper1611 sheep-biter1611 stringer1613 fleshmongera1616 hunt-smock1624 whorer1624 womanizer1626 woman errant1628 mongera1637 linen-lifter1652 whorster1654 whorehopper1664 cousin1694 smocker1708 mutton-master1729 woman dangler1850 masher1872 chippy chaser1887 chaser1894 stud1895 molrower1896 skirt-chaser1942 1894 Yale Wit & Humor 49/2 [Chess tournament] If our accomplished chasers ain't able to pinch that Harvard Queen without giving up one of our own ladies in exchange, we would respectfully ask what the university is coming to? 1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) i. 26 If English had been a chaser Al would have heard about it. 1968 H. Waugh Con Game xviii. 147 George deserted her because he was a chaser. 1969 S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xii. 102 The women thought him an eligible bachelor, if a bit of a chaser. 3. Nautical. a. A ship which chases another. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > vessel which chases another chaser1794 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 337 Were the ship chased as good a sailer as the chaser. 1918 Chambers's Jrnl. Oct. 699/1 Each U-boat chaser measures two hundred and four feet in length. 1957 Jane's Fighting Ships 1956–7 195/1 Ex-U.S. chasers..now rated as..inshore minesweepers. b. A chase-gun (see chase n.1 Compounds 2): see bow-chaser n. at bow n.3 Compounds 3, stern-chaser n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > ship's guns collectively > gun in specific position nosepiecea1614 stern-piece1622 chase-piece1626 rakera1640 chase-gun1667 bow-chase1769 chaser1804 stern-chaser1815 top gun1816 bow-chaser1836 1804 Naval Chron. 12 71 Firing our bow-chasers. 1821 W. Scott Pirate I. viii. 195 We mounted ten guns, besides chasers. 4. = chasseur n. 3.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. xii. 309 He dismissed the Guard sent for him; would have nothing there but six chasers (jäger). 5. A quantity of water or other mild beverage taken after spirituous liquor. (Cf. chasse n.2) colloquial (originally U.S.) Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught > to wash down food or liquor maltc1547 lavative1633 chaser1897 1897 Daily News 30 Aug. 2/1 Everything was 50 cents. a drink, no mixed drinks, and no water for a chaser. 1905 N.Y. Evening Post 8 Sept. 7 Drinking whiskey from a bottle and refusing a ‘chaser’. a1906 ‘O. Henry’ Trimmed Lamp (1916) 166 Eagerly gulping down the strong, black headlines, to be followed as a chaser by the milder details of the smaller type. 1932 J. Dos Passos 1919 162 Two guys from Chicago who were drinking whisky with beerchasers. 1941 P. G. Wodehouse Huy Day by Day in Performing Flea (1953) 209 Give me one blow-out like that..and you wouldn't find me making a fuss if somebody added a dose of some little-known Asiatic poison as a chaser. 1956 ‘N. Shute’ Beyond Black Stump 49 He..took the glass of rum.., shot it down in one swallow, and followed it with a chaser of water. 6. A small, light, usually single-seated aeroplane of great speed and climbing power, used in repelling hostile aircraft. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > fighter chaser1915 pursuit aeroplane1915 skyfighter1915 fighter1917 pursuit airplane1917 pursuit plane1918 flycatcher1924 pursuit aircraft1928 pursuiter1928 night fighter1941 dogfighter1943 parasite jet fighter1948 1915 C. Grahame-White & H. Harper Aircraft in Great War 33 British pilots, having in view the pursuit of slower-flying German craft, have called these little machines [sc. the ‘Bullets’] ‘the chasers’. 1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings p. xxi The chaser craft necessary to keep German machines from interference. 1917 Aeroplane 16 May 1244/1 The High Command of the German Flying Service instituted some months ago the system of mobile chaser squadrons, consisting entirely of picked fighting pilots. 1918 C. G. Grey in M. F. von Richthofen's Red Air Fighter Pref. 19 Von Richthofen's chaser squadron—or Jägdstaffel, as the Germans call these formations—was the first to be known as a ‘circus’. 1919 A. E. Illingworth Fly Papers 41 A chaser squadron of picked pilots. 1939 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Journey to War 37 Canton now had a considerable force of chaser planes. 7. (See quot. 1922) See also progress chaser n. at progress n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1922 G. T. Turner & B. Wood Man. Up-to-date Organisation 171 Chaser is a progress man responsible for the progress of a job through the factory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chasern.2 1. One who chases or engraves metal. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [noun] > chasing > chaser chaser1707 enchaser1859 ciseleur1862 1707 Earl of Bindon in London Gaz. No. 4339/3 Engravers, Carvers, Chacers. 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. iv. 92 He invented patterns for..enamellers and chasers of plate. 1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 371 Machinery has invaded even the art of the chaser. 2. A tool used for cutting the threads of screws. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > machine for cutting screw-threads > tools screw tool1797 chaser1847 hob1873 1847 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1846 58 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (29th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 52) III My fifth improvement relates to the arrangement of the thread-cutter or chaser. 1881 P. N. Hasluck Lathe Work 46 The screw thread is originated by hand with the chaser. Categories » 3. Metallurgy. One of the edge-wheels which revolves in a trough, to grind substances to powder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). chasern.3 Scottish. ‘A ram that has only one testicle’ (Jamieson). ΚΠ 1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 26 When selling my eild ewes and chasers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1300n.21707n.31818 |
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