单词 | grainer |
释义 | grainern.1 One who or that which grains. 1. Leather-dressing. a. (See quots. and cf. bate n.3). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > tan-vat > types of bark-vatc1440 bark-cobillc1550 handler1771 grainer1813 roundabout1842 rocker1876 suspender1882 lay-away1885 layer pit1901 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. vi. 261 The contents of the grainer, as the pit is called in which soft skins are prepared by dung, must form a very useful manure. 1852 C. Morfit Arts of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing 350 This alkaline lye consists of water impregnated with pigeon's or hen's dung, and is technically termed a grainer, or bate. 1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Grainer, a vat used in tanning—in the second operation. b. A tool either for taking off the hair of skins, or for producing the appearance of ‘grain’. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for removing flesh or hair fleshing-iron1547 pilling knife1688 grainer1839 slicker1852 worker1860 scraper1865 beaming machine1874 beaming-tool1874 flesher1885 slater1885 shaver1897 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 769 A grain is formed upon the flesh side with the roughened lead plate or grainer of the curriers. 1852 C. Morfit Arts of Tanning, Currying, & Leather-dressing 384 When nearly dry, the lustre is given with a finely grooved pummel, or grainer, passed over in both directions. 2. Salt-making. (See quot.; cf. grain v.1 2c. ΚΠ 1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. XIII. 77 The liquid is drawn into other vats called ‘grainers’..[in which] the salt forms very rapidly. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 778/2. 3. (See quot. 1891 and cf. grain v.1 5.) ΚΠ 1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Grainers, men in the printing industry who grain stone with sand for artists doing what is called ‘chalk work’. 4. A house-painter's graining-tool. ΚΠ 1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products ; and in later Dicts. 5. One who paints in imitation of the grain of wood or the markings of marble. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > decorator > [noun] > painter > in imitation of wood or marble grainer1837 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 356 The Grainer, who admirably imitates the grains of woods, marbles, etc. 1887 Paperhanger, Painter, Grainer, etc. 105 Graining is the imitation, strictly speaking, of woods, although the term ‘grainer’ is often used..to signify a painter of marbles as well as of woods. 1891 Daily News 21 Jan. 3/8 A sign writer and grainer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grainern.2 One who uses a pronged fish-spear. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using spear spear-fisher1449 spear-fisherman1449 striker1697 spearman1815 gaff-man1875 grainer1894 spear-gunner1951 1894 Outing 24 56/1 Many grainers wore long rubber waders. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11813n.21894 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。