单词 | axeman |
释义 | axemanaxmann. 1. A man who uses an axe in his work; a woodman. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > axe sparc1440 sparthc1518 axeman1807 gisarmier1834 poleaxer1885 1671 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1883) XX. 145 The time of meeting for ax men is to be by the sun half an hour high. 1777 Maryland Jrnl. 18 Mar. Five hundred good carpenters, with ax-men and sawyers in proportion. 1785 A. Ellicott in Life & Lett. (1908) 45 From a Hill where our Axe-men are now Encamped we have a most beautiful Prospect. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vi. 226 Scalpers and ax-men rush from Erie's shore. 1878 J. Buller Forty Years N.Z. i. ii. 28 They worked as axe-men, sawyers, etc. 2. A warrior armed with a battle-axe. ΚΠ 1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) II. 218 Every axe-man who had neither spear nor bow. 3. A guitarist, esp. one who plays in a band or group. Cf. axe n.1 5 slang (chiefly Jazz and Rock Music). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > guitar-player guitarist1771 guitar-player1834 rhythm guitarist1934 guitar-picker1951 fingerpicker1959 axeman1976 1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 2/4 Guitarist Albert Lee..slotted in remarkably, swapping subtle licks and fresh ideas with Joan's regular axeman Jerry Donahue. 1977 Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 69/2 Though Beck himself adds some screaming guitar to one selection and Devadip Carlos Santana is effectively lyrical on another, axeman Ray Gomez powers four of the cuts. 1985 Washington Post 15 May b7/2 He learned guitar from Fats Domino's axeman, Walter (Papoose) Nelson. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1671 |
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