| 单词 | factory bell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfactory bell b. attributive. Designating a bell, whistle, siren, etc., used to mark the beginning or end of a period of work at a factory, as factory bell, factory hooter, factory whistle, etc. ΚΠ 1806 Lancaster Gaz. 8 Mar. (advt.) 1 factory bell; 2 clocks; several pairs of scales and weights. 1857 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 9 May 357/1 I walked wearily till noon, which the factory whistle announced with a disappointed yell. 1864 A. J. Evans Macaria xxii. 104 Afar off, and over all, was heard the measured music of factory bells, chanting a hymn to sacred and eternal Labor. 1882 Times 30 Dec. 4/5 People who..complain of the noise made by railway whistles and factory ‘hooters’. 1930 D. H. Lawrence Triumph of Machine (Ariel Poems No. 28) They will hear far, far away the last factory hooter. 1966 P. Bowles Up above World ix. 43 A factory siren wailed. 2012 P. C. Baldwin In Watches of Night iii. 34 The workday ended with the clang of factory bells or the bolting of store shutters, and workers were suddenly, thrillingly, freer than ever before. < as lemmas |
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