| 单词 | hatters' shakes |
| 释义 | > as lemmashatters' shakes hatters' shakes n. (also hatter's shakes, hatters shakes) now historical a form of chronic mercury poisoning occurring in workers exposed to mercury, esp. during the manufacture of hats, characterized by muscle tremors, mental and behavioural changes, and stomatitis; (also) the muscle tremors themselves; cf. mad hatter n. at mad adj. Compounds 3 and as mad as a hatter at mad adj. Phrases 2f. ΚΠ 1883 Sixth Ann. Rep. Bureau Statistics of Labor & Industries New Jersey 103 Hatters' shakes or mercury poisoning. 1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Feb. 378/2 Muscular tremors (‘hatters' shakes’) are most often observed in those engaged in dusty post-carrotting processes (for example cutters, lockers, and pelt-shakers). 1970 New Yorker 22 Aug. 68 The features in chronic mercurialism are an inflammation of the mouth, muscular tremors—the famous hatter's shakes—and a characteristic personality change. 2005 J. Emsley Elements of Murder (2006) iii. 52 Some trades were notorious for the effect the mercury had on those engaged in them, witness the condition known as ‘hatters' shakes’. hatters' shakes dumb shakes, (U.S.) ? masked intermittent fever. hatters' shakes, a disease incident to some workers in hat-making.extracted from shaken.1< as lemmas |
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