单词 | dry waller |
释义 | dry wallern. 1. A person who builds a dry wall or dry walls (see dry wall n. 1). ΘΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of walls > types of ground-waller1477 diker1497 cowan1598 rough waller1614 sea-waller1790 stone-diker1901 1839 T. Haigh Gen. & Commerc. Directory Borough Leeds 397/2 Ryder John, dry waller. 1922 Daily Mail 10 Nov. 8/5 A dry-waller has to be born, not made. So old William told me when I found him dry-walling. 2007 G. Haywood & M. Haywood Tending your Garden 202/2 The one rule that Dan Snow and other dry wallers insist upon is that you set the longest dimension of each stone perpendicular to the length of the wall rather than parallel to it. 2. Originally and chiefly North American. Now usually in form drywaller. A person whose job is to fit drywall (dry wall n. 2). ΘΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > others bell-hanger1540 powder monkey1670 articulator1798 universalist1801 sander1854 gummer?1881 shaver1885 wire-cutter1888 knacker1890 radiologist1905 groundhog1926 dogman1948 1955 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Disp. 25 Nov. 11 c/3 (advt.) Dry Wallers must be good and union; plenty work. 1988 R. Boswell in M. Atwood Best Amer. Short Stories (1989) 35 Dry-wallers worked down the site from us. 2010 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 27 Mar. d1/2 The kitchen needed a complete gut-and-remodel... The house was filled for weeks with demo workers, insulators, electricians, plumbers and drywallers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2022). < n.1839 |
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