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单词 pionery
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pioneryn.

Forms: 1500s pionarie, 1500s pyonury (Scottish), 1600s pionery, 1600s pionry.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pioneer n., -ery suffix.
Etymology: < pion- (in pioneer n.; compare pioning n.) + -ery suffix. Compare Middle French pionnerie, pionerie the making of earthworks (1332), the tools of a pioneer (1465 in an apparently isolated attestation).
Obsolete.
1. Scottish. The office or duties of a porter or labourer, esp. one approved by a burgh. Cf. pioneer n. 2, piner n.2 1. rare.
ΚΠ
1547 Perth Guildry 17 Aug. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1983) V. 518/1 Me..principall pyonur of the office of pyonury of the burght of Perth.
2.
a. The work of a military pioneer (pioneer n. 1). Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > [noun] > transporting > work of pioneers
pionery1562
1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory 14 The significations of this colour Sable..with Or, honor with long lyfe..with Sanguine, prosperous in Pionarie.
1650 W. Brough Sacred Princ. 174 The Art, is his Pionry, to undermine gluttony.
1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor xxviii. 239 Thus further has flattery and fallacy been carryed on in all Ages of the World, as that Pionery and subterraneous mischief, which is at its mark before discored.
b. The tools of a military pioneer. In quot. figurative.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > digging or lifting tools > [noun]
pionery1654
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. i. 33 Chirurgions..with..tooth-pick-axes, tooth-mattocks, and all manner of mouth-Pionery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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