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单词 darg
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dargn.

Brit. /dɑːɡ/, U.S. /dɑrɡ/, Scottish English /darɡ/
Forms: Also Middle English dawerk, dawark, 1700s daurk, 1800s daark, dark, darrak, darroch, dargue, daurg,
Etymology: A syncopated form of daywerk, or daywark, daywork n., through the series of forms dawark, *da'ark, dark, darg, the latter being now the common form in Scotland.
Scottish and northern dialect.
A day's work, the task of a day; also, a defined quantity or amount of work, or of the product of work, done in a certain time or at a certain rate of payment; a task.
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society > occupation and work > work > amounts of work > [noun] > day's work
dayworkOE
day's workOE
journey1387
darg1489
1489 Act. Audit. 147 (Jam.) Ffor the spoliatioune of vi dawarkis of hay.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ix. l. 1494 Þat dulful dawwerk þat tyme was done.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 596 For that same darg and deid.
1605 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. II. 451 Fourscoir dargis of hay.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 167 Monie a sair daurk we twa hae wrought.
1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XII. 300 A darg of marl, i.e. as much as could be cast up by the spade in one day.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 19 I have a lang day's darg afore me.
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 21 Darg, a fixed quantity of coal to be worked for a certain price..the general term in use about Berwick.
1859 T. De Quincey Cæsars (rev. ed.) in Wks. X. 51 You did what in Westmoreland they call a good darroch.
1876 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera VI. lxi. 8 And goes out himself to his day's darg.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Darrak (Centre), dark (S.W.), darg (North C.), day's work.

Compounds

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darg-days n. days of work done in lieu of rent or due to the feudal lord.
dargsman n. a day labourer.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > hireling > hired by the day
journeyman1463
day labourer1528
daytal1548
serviceman1582
dayman1584
dayworker1587
daysman1617
journeywoman1733
journey-workman1756
darger1803
peon1826
jour1835
dataller1844
dargsman1845
journey-worker1887
journalier1891
1845 Whistle-Binkie (1890) 3rd Ser. I. 418 Warnin dargsmen to put on their claes.

Derivatives

ˈdarger n. (also darker) a day labourer.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > hireling > hired by the day
journeyman1463
day labourer1528
daytal1548
serviceman1582
dayman1584
dayworker1587
daysman1617
journeywoman1733
journey-workman1756
darger1803
peon1826
jour1835
dataller1844
dargsman1845
journey-worker1887
journalier1891
1803 J. Jamieson Water Kelpie in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 357 The darger left his thrift.
1807 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (new ed.) 64 The laird and dar'ker cheek by chowle, Wad sit and crack of auld lang seyne.
ˈdarging n. working as a day-labourer.
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1788 R. Galloway Poems 119 Glad to fa' to wark that's killing: To common darguing.
1885 in D. H. Edwards Mod. Sc. Poets 8th Ser. 44 A bargain..for drainin' or for dargin'.
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