单词 | machiner |
释义 | machinern. 1. A horse employed to draw a vehicle; a post-horse, coach-horse, etc. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > draught-horse > that pulls vehicle one1737 carriage horse1774 machiner1798 1798 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses II. 156 Too much of this is practised at the sales of worn-out post-hacks and machiners. 1835 G. Stephen Adventures in Search of Horse (1841) xv. 210 Machiners, as they are called, that is, post-horses, or stage-horses. 1854 C. Knight Once upon a Time I. 156 Hence stage-coach horses were called ‘Machiners’. 1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. xiii. 293 The Poncheron horse..is..the favourite ‘machiner’ in this part of the country. 1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) ii. iii. i. §2. 518 The ordinary hunter..comprehends every variety between the one described above and the heavy machiner. 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > [noun] > one who operates machine minder1692 tender1825 machiner1828 steersman1828 machine-man1834 machine-minder1835 operator1847 runner1848 machine-boy1875 machinist1879 machine operator1887 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > planting trees or afforestation > person working planting machine machiner1828 1828 H. Steuart Planter's Guide vii. 225 Whom [sc. the planter] I have ventured to denominate the Machiner... The Machiner..at once ascertains the side, upon which the Tree can be best laid along the pole. b. A sewing-machine operator. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > sewing in other ways > one who hemmer1483 baster1854 machinist1879 sewing machinist?1881 whipper?1881 machiner1888 tucker1905 Blake-sewer1921 overlocker1921 bar tacker1924 1888 Times 20 Sept. 7/4 Mr. M. never knew a good machiner who would work for less than six shillings a day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1798 |
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