单词 | pewterer |
释义 | pewterern. A worker in pewter; a person who makes pewter utensils. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > pewter workers pewterer1348 trifler1610 pewter maker1902 1348 in C. Welch Hist. Pewterers of London (1902) I. 5 (MED) Ye schull kepe to ȝowre powere well and trewly all the good rewlys of peutreres Crafte which ben enrolled in the Guyld halle of london. 1402 Rolls of Parl. III. 519/2 Thomas Fulham, John Grace, Peuterers. 1503 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 6 The Pewterers and Brasiers of the Cities of London and York. 1598 in T. Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 222 (note) The plumers, puderers, glaciares, and paynters. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xx. 146 We caus'd a skilful Pewterer..to close it up..with Soder. 1691 Haddington Burgh Rec. 29 Aug. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pewtherar The most part of the inhabitants of this burgh imploys smiths saidlers peutherers and others..who are no members of the said craft [of hammermen]. 1710 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston 67 Mr. Thomas Clark of Boston Pewterer..Signified his request. 1787 R. Lucas Cork Directory in Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. (1967) 72 141 Dickinson (Charles) Brass-founder, and Pewterer, North Main-street. 1800 Columbian Centinel & Massachusetts Federalist 11 Jan. 2/3 The procession..[included] lightermen, limners,..pewterers [etc.]. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 120 Bismuth, with tin, forms a compound more elastic and sonorous than the tin itself, and is therefore frequently added to it by the pewterers. 1955 Times 16 June 9/6 The pewterer's craft is a peculiarly English one. 1998 Guardian 5 Dec. (Review section) 2/4 Demonstrations by glassblowers and pewterers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1348 |
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