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单词 lighter-up
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lighter-up
lighter-up n. [after to light up at light v.2 Phrasal verbs] now historical a person employed to light a fire or furnace, esp. on a steam train.As part of an extended metaphor in quot. 1847.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > one who lights or removes fire
lighter-up1847
fire dropper1898
1847 Anglo Amer. 11 Sept. 499/2 It seems only to have wanted the first fire, and the future lighter up of the flame to stand his ground till the ignition had taken place.
1863 Ann. Reg. 1862 186/1 The ‘lighter-up’ lighted the fire for the purpose of getting up steam.
1873 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Feb. 4/1 To caution all the ‘lighters-up’..in future to look inside the furnaces before they put red-hot coke into them.
1931 Gas Jrnl. 6 May 372/2 The ‘lighter-up’ coming in at 6.30a.m. has the furnaces at working temperature when the forge-men start at 7.30.
2015 D. Barnett Life on Austral. Locomotives (e-book ed.) xxiii. They would light up engines from cold and attend to the fires of locos in steam... Each lighter up worked one shift.
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