| 单词 | artificer-engineer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasartificer-engineer b. An engineer or skilled technician in a navy, esp. the Royal Navy. Frequently with modifying word, as engine-room artificer, ordnance artificer, etc.; also in compounds, as artificer-engineer. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > artificer artificer1769 tiffy1899 1716 J. Perry State of Russia 165 Upon his coming over to England he resolv'd to have none but English built Ships made in his Countrey, and was thereupon pleased to entertain several English Builders and Artificers for his Navy that he intended to establish.] 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Clerk of the Check An officer in the royal dock-yards, who keeps a muster or register of all the men employed aboard his majesty's ships and vessels, and also of all the artificers and others in the service of the navy at the port where he is settled. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 294/1 The engine-room artificers, leading stoker, and stokers are under his [sc. the engineer's] immediate control. 1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 34 My life-long admiration for the blue-jacket proper will be shared by his brothers in arms, the stoker and engine-room artificer (‘tiffy’ as we call him). 1902 Monthly Rev. Aug. 92 The Admiralty have conferred the charge of machinery in small vessels on fifty-six artificer-engineers. 1941 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 24 July 7/3 (advt.) Can you tell a Navy man who is in the Artificer Branch from one who is in the Messman's Branch? 2001 Navy News Sept. 6/6 As we did not carry an ordnance artificer, a discussion arose as to who would maintain the gun. < as lemmas |
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