| 单词 | piecer-out |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspiecer-out 1. A person who joins something together or patches something up. Also occasionally as piecer-out. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun] clouterc1440 maker-up?a1444 botcher1499 repairer?1504 reparationer1520 patcher1528 bodger1538 repareller1546 mender1552 sarcinator1646 vamper1712 piecer1764 renovator1827 repairman1856 fixer?1881 serviceman1905 Mr Fixit1924 fixit man1949 fixit1982 1764 H. G. Faber To Printer in Polite Misc. 137 Trade has been of late very slack, through means of some S—e Coblers, Patchers, and Heel-piecers, &c. who have endeavoured to undermine him, by repairing the tattered and worn out state of his work. 1836 New Monthly Mag. 48 70 Fancy's the wealth of wealth, the toiler's hope, The poor man's piecer-out. 1898 Catholic World July 509 One energetic little Frenchwoman is a splendid piecer of patchwork quilts. 1956 H. Gardner Limits Lit. Crit. ii. 25 The form-critic has reduced St. Mark to a mere piecer-and-stitcher-together of materials. 1990 Lady's Circle Art Quilts xv. 38 Flowers and quilts must go together, and piecers as well as appliqué artists find the combination irresistible. < as lemmas |
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