单词 | hasher |
释义 | hashern. 1. A machine for cutting meat or food finely or into small pieces. In early use also: †a person who cuts meat or food in this way, or who makes meat or food into a hash (obsolete). ΚΠ 1838 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 131 The Cook's a hasher—nothing more. 1846 Bradfield & Wakefield Observer 6 Aug. Tin hasher. 1877 Amer. Chemist 7 236/1 Piece by piece it is introduced into the hasher, which, by means of the evolving knives within, cuts the fat very fine and forces it through a fine sieve at the opposite end. 1901 Federal Reporter 106 646 Marcan..was engaged in operating a machine for chopping meat, called a ‘hasher’. On April 30, 1898, Marcan accidentally put the fingers of his left hand into the hasher and lost them. 1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin vii. 63 The calves would be..put on to a little hay and turnips chipped small with the hasher. 2. U.S. slang. A waiter, waitress, or cook in a cheap restaurant or cafe. Cf. hash slinger n. at hash n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > server of food > in inn or restaurant aproner1611 waiter1664 garçon1788 tendera1825 hash slinger1868 officer1886 Robert1886 hasher1891 tender1901 hot potato1909 floor-waiter1930 waitperson1973 waitron1980 1891 Sunday World Herald (Omaha, Nebraska) 22 Mar. 6 There are fully a dozen chop houses in the city open day and night and employing about seventy-five men, commonly known as ‘hashers’. 1960 Listener 18 Aug. 250/2 When it came to making an impression on the ‘hashers’ in the railroad ‘beaneries’, the boomers really let themselves go... The ‘hashers’ were girls chosen for their looks. 1961 Amer. Speech 36 271 Somewhere on your run you will spend some time at a truck stop..while the hasher serves your diesel. 2000 Newsweek 18 Sept. Torres..was working her way through high school as a ‘hasher’ in a Stanford dining hall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838 |
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