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单词 drainer
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drainern.

Brit. /ˈdreɪnə/, U.S. /ˈdreɪnər/
Etymology: < drain v. + -er suffix1.
1. One who drains; esp. one whose business is to construct field-drains.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > ditching or drainage > [noun] > other types of drainage > drainer
drainer1611
underdraining1805
underdrainer1835
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Espuiseur, a drayner; exhauster, emptier of moisture.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Bedf. 115 The Drayners of the fenns, have..secured the Country against his power for the future.
1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle iv. iii. 162 It is a part of Prudence in a Commonwealth or Kingdom to encourage drayners.
1717 S. Sewall Diary 23 Aug. (1973) II. 859 Gave the workmen 2s, Dreaners 6d.
1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. II. iii. xiv. 341 As the drainer cuts his drain in the greensward of the meadows.
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 235 This drainer to the dregs O' the draught of conversation.
figurative.a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 105 I must note the Pope's Legats and Dreyners.1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XV iv. 7 The drainer of oblivion, even the sot.
2. That which drains; a drain; a vessel in which moist substances are put to drain.
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the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > vessel in which substances are drained
drainer1598
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer
cockey1390
gutterc1440
soughc1440
sew1475
withdraught1493
sink1499
syre1513
closet1531
draught1533
vault1533
drain1552
fleet1583
issue1588
drainer1598
guzzle1598
shore1598
sewer1609
vennel1641
cloaca1656
cuniculus1670
pend1817
thurrock1847
sewer line1977
the world > matter > liquid > action or process of extracting > [noun] > one who or that which extracts > by draining
drainer1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Gocciolatoio, a gutter or drainer in a house.
1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens 164 An old gote and drainer called Symond's gote.
1696 J. Edwards Demonstr. Existence God ii. v. 99 The Gall-Bladder in the hollow Part of the Liver, is the Dreiner for Choler.
1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres 319 He makes his Theatre to have had Drainers for Water, and a Roof.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 165 While the curd is pressing in the drainer, it ought to be set before a good fire.
1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 229 The white salt in the drainer may be washed with water.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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