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单词 gatchers
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gatchersn.

Forms: English regional (Cornwall) 1700s–1800s gatchers, 1800s gatches.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: catcher n.
Etymology: Misreading of the plural of catcher n.
Error for catchers, the after-leavings of tin, originating in the glossary to Pryce's Mineralogia Cornubiensis. Also gatches ( English Dialect Dictionary).
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1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 229 All dressers save the hinder stuff from the frame end, as it washes off in a pit by the name of Catchers. Gloss., Gatchers, the after leavings of Tin.
1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. ii. 202/2 Gatchers, the after-leavings of tin. [Hence 1890 in Cent. Dict.]
1882 F. W. P. Jago Anc. Lang. & Dial. Cornwall 320 Gatchers, the after-leavings of tin ore. Pryce.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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