| 单词 | muck-shifter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmuck-shifter muck-shifter n. (a) a miner; a navvy; (b) a vehicle or machine designed to excavate large quantities of soil and rock; an earth mover. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > earth-movers, etc. > [noun] > one who digs other structures hill-digger1521 sinker1584 pondcaster1602 navigator1775 dammer1816 navvy1829 muck-shifter1856 society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] scraper1815 JCB1960 muck-shifter1961 1856 Househ. Words 13 544 Miners from Cornwall,..Muckshifters, Pickmen [etc.]. 1880 D. W. Barrett Life & Work among Navvies ii. ii. 43 Navvies themselves speak of one another as muck-shifters, or thick-legs. 1961 Engineering 9 June 797 Designed to work under rugged off-highway conditions as a muck-shifter. 1983 D. Sullivan Navvyman vii. 54 Navvies of the kind called getters or pickmen worked right down at the muck-face, bringing it down into heaps suitable for shovelling away by other navvies called muckshifters, wagon-fillers, fitters, or runners-out. < as lemmas |
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