单词 | keelman |
释义 | keelmann.1 One who works on a keel or barge. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > types of sailor > [noun] > sailor on barge or lighter keeler1322 lighterman1463 bargeman1465 keelman1516 wherryman1535 bark-man1588 pug1591 barger1602 western man1607 bargee1669 keel-bully1699 1516 Patent Roll, 8 Henry VIII (P.R.O.) i. m. 16 The craftes of..Porters, Kelemen, Sclatters. 1592 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 251 Henrie Robinsone of the towne of Newcastell-upon-Tyne, keillman. 1695 London Gaz. No. 3193/3 Newcastle, June 12... The Keel Men are gone to work again. 1774 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IV. 21 In the morning I preached at the Ballast-Hills among the glassmen, keelmen, and sailors. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More (1831) II. 56 It has become a place of colliers and keelmen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2018). keelmann.2 Scottish. 1. A dealer in keel or ruddle. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in ruddle ruddleman1632 raddleman1637 reddlemana1661 keelman1829 1829 W. Scott Old Mortality Introd., in Waverley Novels IX. 233 To 3 Chappins of Yell with Sandy the Keelman, 0 0 9. 2. One of a class of Irish linen-dealers (see quot. 1821). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in textiles, clothing, or yarns mercerc1230 clothier1362 draper1362 woolman1390 yarn-chopper1429 line-draper1436 Welsh drapera1525 telerc1540 purple-seller1547 linen-draper1549 staplera1552 silkman1553 woollen-draper1554 wool-driver1555 woolster1577 linener1616 woolner1619 linen-man1631 ragman1649 rag merchant1665 slop-seller1665 bodice-seller1672 piece-broker1697 wool-stapler1709 cloth-man1723 Manchester-man1755 fleece-merchanta1774 rag dealer1777 man's mercer1789 keelman1821 man-mercer1837 cotton-broker1849 slopper1854 shoddyite1865 costumier1886 cotton-man1906 1821 Brenner Irish Linen Trade in Cassell's Gazetteer Indust. Great Brit. (1878–80) II. xvi. 196 The ‘Keelmen’ were so-called from the first persons who got into the trade being very illiterate, and, unable to write in ordinary characters, they marked on each piece of linen the price at which it was bought with ‘keel’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.11516n.21821 |
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