| 单词 | air warden |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair warden air warden n. [probably after German Luftwart] = air raid warden n. at air raid n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > others concerned with military affairs > [noun] > air-raid warden, fire-watcher, etc. fire-watcher1830 street warden1835 air warden1933 air raid warden1936 warden1936 paraspotter1940 roof-spotter1940 roof-watcher1940 1933 Times 16 Aug. 10/3 Measures of defence against aerial attack are being prepared with extraordinary thoroughness by the Reich Air Defence League... Fire-fighting and first-aid teams are to be formed in each house, under the leadership of a carefully selected and trained ‘house air warden’.] 1933 Times 19 Aug. 7/4 The dropping of gas bombs was first reported by the ‘air warden’ of a house in the Neue Strasse. 1938 Times Weekly 27 Jan. 8/2 The appointment by local authorities in Great Britain of voluntary air wardens and fire-fighters. 2005 Carmarthen Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 Aug. 10 In 1945..Mr Skyrme was living in Camberwell and lodging with an air warden and his family. < as lemmas |
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