| 单词 | fleece-picker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfleece-picker fleece-picker n. New Zealand one who picks up fleeces in a shearing-shed. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer > fleece-picker picker-up1611 fleece-picker1861 fleece-o1894 piece picker1899 1861 H. W. Harper Lett. from N.Z. (1914) 20 July 54 Shearing, it happens, is in full swing, so there are a number of extra men, besides the shepherds of the station, shearers, fleece-pickers, wool sorters, and ‘rouse-abouts’. 1892 W. E. Swanton Notes on N.Z. ii. 96 There are the boys to pick up the fleeces, one fleece picker to every four or five shearers. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. iii. 63 Woolshed workers include the fleece-picker or fleecy. 1954 E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (ed. 2) xv. 130 Fleece-pickers received 15s. a week, wool-rollers 25s. to 30s. [in 1882]. < as lemmas |
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