α. see gill v.1 and -er suffix1.
β. (north midlands, as a surname) early Middle English gelour, early Middle English gillour, early Middle English gylor.
单词 | giller |
释义 | † gillern.α. see gill v.1 and -er suffix1. β. (north midlands, as a surname) early Middle English gelour, early Middle English gillour, early Middle English gylor. Obsolete. A person whose job is to gut fish.In early use also more generally: a person who guts animals (cf. quot. c1450).Earliest attested in surnames. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of seafood > [noun] > filleting or gutting > one who giller1251 gutter1780 filleter1884 1251 Close Rolls Henry III (1922) VI. 432 De visoribus eligendis ad operaciones regis de Bristollia.—Quia Johannes le Giller et Willelmus de Lychefeud' propter paupertatem et debilitatem suam nequiunt visui operum regis intendere. 1313 in Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1894–5 (1895) 19 238 Johanni le Gillare. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 560/4 Abestis [perhaps read a bestiis] intestina hostiarum aspiciens, a gyller [Catholicon Anglicum 1483 BL Add. 89074 gelder] of bestys. 1654 in P. H. Hore Hist. Wexford (1906) V. 312 Consider how many Sea-men, Boatmen, ffishermen, Packers, Gillers, Coopers, Masons, Carpenters, and Labourers..there bee in Wexford, Rosse, and other Port townes. 1881 P. B. Du Chaillu Land Midnight Sun II. 149 Two skilled gillers can clean and fill thirty barrels a day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1251 |
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