单词 | flusher |
释义 | flushern.1 One who is employed to flush sewers. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > [noun] > clearing drain or sewer > one who scourer?1518 flusherman1851 flusher1882 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 June 1/2 Superintendent of flushers. Derivatives ˈflusherman n. a sewer-flusher. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > clearing of refuse matter > [noun] > clearing drain or sewer > one who scourer?1518 flusherman1851 flusher1882 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 28/1 The policeman on duty there wears huge..flushermen's boots. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 151/1 I received a similar account to this from one of the London flushermen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). flushern.2 dialect. The Red-backed Shrike, Lanius collurio. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Laniidae (shrike) > genus Lanius > lanius collurio flusher1674 horse-match1848 pope1885 1674 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 83 The lesser Butcher-bird, called in Yorkshire, Flusher, Lanius tertius. 1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 48 Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio)..Flasher or Flusher (Cornwall). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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