单词 | houser |
释义 | housern.1 rare. 1. A person who or thing which builds a house or houses; a builder.In this sense apparently unrecorded between the medieval and modern periods. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builder of houses housera1400 housewright1549 house-raisera1639 housebuilder1681 homebuilder1855 a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 32 The stoon þt the houseres [L. aedificantes] reproueden her hit is maad in to the heued of the corner. 1871 M. Kavanagh Origin Lang. & Myths I. 29 It [sc. the beaver] ought to be called the houser; that is, the house-maker. 1943 Jrnl. Farm Econ. 25 662 These specifications are in the nature of a trade agreement among professional housers. 1994 M. Ritzdorf in I. Altman & A. Churchman Women & Environment x. 274 Scholars are slowly reconstructing the significant historical contributions of women housers and planners. 2. A person who ‘houses’ or makes his or her home somewhere; a dweller, an inhabitant. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > [noun] maneOE wonnera1340 dwellera1382 livera1382 indweller1382 resiant1405 inhabitor1413 inhabitera1425 tenanta1425 abider1440 citizenc1450 inhabitant1462 resident1463 denizen1474 inhabitator?a1475 mansionarya1475 habitant1490 incolera1513 occupier?1542 land-occupier1576 residentiary1581 burgessa1586 incolant1596 consistorian1599 ledger1600 resider1632 residenter1644 habitator1646 endwellera1649 incolary1652 incolist1657 insetter1712 houser1871 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 54 To be with the snows, the wild beasts, in a wintery domicile, To be near each savage houser that a surly fury provokes [L. et earum omnia adirem furibunda latibula]. 1905 Daily Chron. 23 Mar. 6/6 Consternation among the Free Housers of Hornsey. 2001 Vietnam Investm. Rev. (Nexis) 29 Oct. Only pile-roof housers could get a mortgage: for people living in thatched-roof houses like us, there's no way. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † housern.2 Obsolete. A covering, housing (housing n.2). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering wrielsc825 coverc1320 hillingc1325 eyelida1382 covering1382 casea1398 coverta1400 tegumentc1440 hacklea1450 coverturec1450 housingc1450 deck1466 heeler1495 housera1522 coverlet1551 shrouda1561 kever1570 vele1580 periwig1589 hap1593 opercle1598 integument?1611 blanketa1616 cask1646 operiment1650 coverlid1654 tegment1656 shell?1677 muff1687 operculum1738 tegmen1807 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. iv. l. 192 The kyng With purpour howsouris bad a cursur bring. 1785 R. Cumberland Observer No. 89. ⁋2 He loaded and primed his pistols, and carefully lodged them in the housers of his saddle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1a1400n.2a1522 |
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