| 单词 | line-book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasline-book line-book n. (a) Printing (Obsolete exc. Historical), a book in which compositors working in companionships (chiefly 19th cent.) kept account of the lines of set type credited and debited to them; (b) (also lines-book) R.A.F. slang a record of boasts (see 13g). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > record and reference books > [noun] > compositors' accounts line-book1876 the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > a boast > record of boasts line-book1876 1876 J. Gould Letter-press Printer 33 The system adopted in some of the smaller houses is for each compositor to make up and impose his own pages, the making-up being passed from one compositor to the companion who follows him, accompanied by the line book. 1942 Observer 4 Oct. 7/2 ‘There I was, upside down, in cloud, ten-tenths, at 1,500 ft...’ But you never get to the end of your story if you were so foolish as to begin like that. ‘Lineshoot!’ they would cry. ‘Line!’ And most squadrons have a Line Book in which such statements are written down, to their authors' perpetual shame. 1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 40 Lines book, in which are recorded exaggerated statements made at one time or another by Mess members. 1945 E. Taylor At Mrs Lippincote's xxiii. 194 Quick, the line-book! 1972 P. Gaskell New Introd. Bibliogr. 193 He [sc. the clicker] kept an account of the number of lines that each man set, both in a line-book and by marking the copy. < as lemmas |
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