| 单词 | hewers of wood and drawers of water |
| 释义 | > as lemmashewers of wood and drawers of water d. hewers of wood and drawers of water: labourers of the lowest kind; drudges. (From Joshua ix. 21.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > labourer or unskilled > collectively hewers of wood and drawers of water1535 labouring class1753 volk1882 wananchi1965 c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxix. 11 Buton wuduheawerum and þam þe wæter beraþ. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xxix. 11 Out taak the hewers of trees, and hem that beren watris.] 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Josh. ix. D Let them lyue, that they maye be hewers of wodd and bearers of water for the whole congregacion. 1755 Man No. 25. 2 Even hewers of wood and drawers of water are men in a lower degree. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxvi. 83 Being but a hewer of wood and drawer of water, she is rheumatic. < as lemmas |
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