| 单词 | driveress |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈdriveress ˈdriveress n. a female driver; esp. a female overseer of enslaved labourers on a plantation (see sense 3) (now historical). ΚΠ 1661 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Brief Expos. Six Points v. 10 in tr. J. Böhme Several Treat. It is not the Omnipotencie, but the Driveresse in the Power and Might, or Introducer into the Power and Might. 1824 T. Cooper Facts Negro Slaves in Jamaica 49 I have seen many gangs of little boys and girls at work in the field before the driveress, who, however, always had her whip. 1863 St. James's Mag. 6 152 The driveress of the celebrated ponies in the silver harness. 2003 N. Hopkinson Salt Roads 2 Sixteen hours each day they had us working to bring the sugar in, and old Cuba the driveress would still push the first gang to pluck weeds sometimes into the deep of the night. < as lemmas |
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