| 单词 | knobstick mill |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknobstick mill b. Designating a business or workplace where workers are employed on terms not recognized by a trade union, as knobstick mill, knobstick shop. Cf. sense 2b. Now historical. ΚΠ 1829 Standard 9 Nov. Three men rushed upon him.., and seized him, exclaiming, ‘We will teach you what it is to stop in a knobstick shop.’ 1893 C. A. Clarke Knobstick xxii. 94 Let me see. I've heard of his foundry. Isn't it what is called a ‘knobstick’ shop? 1984 J. Liddington Life & Times Respectable Rebel 361 War was declared on this employer and his knobstick mill. < as lemmas |
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