单词 | chemicker |
释义 | chemickern. now historical. A person employed to bleach fabrics with ‘chemic’ (see chemic n. 5, chemic v. 2). ΚΠ 1885 Instr. to Clerks Classifying Occup. P.R.O.: RG 27/5/69 69 Cotton, Calico, Printer, Dyer, Bleacher..Raising place: Orange raiser. Chemicker. Washer. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §381 Chemicker,..minds a kind of mangle, trough of which contains chemicking (bleaching) solution. 1988 R. MacLeod Govt. &. Expertise: Specialists, Administrators & Professionals, 1860–1919 276 In 1881, the clerks abstracting occupations were supplied with an occupational dictionary of between 11,000 and 12,000 terms. This included such obscure entries as ‘bull-dog burner’, ‘chemicker’, ‘piece burler’, ‘prinder’, and so on. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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