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单词 pipelayer
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pipelayern.

Brit. /ˈpʌɪpleɪə/, U.S. /ˈpaɪpˌleɪ(ə)r/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pipe n.1, layer n.
Etymology: < pipe n.1 + layer n. Compare later pipelay n.With sense 2 compare to lay pipe at pipe n.1 Phrases 4, pipe lay v. 2, and pipe-laying n. 2.
1. A person who or machine which lays pipes for water, gas, etc.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > utility service workers > [noun] > pipe-layer or -fitter
piper1456
pipelayer1818
pipe-fitter1860
pipeman1863
steamfitter1906
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]
reeler1598
driver1659
rubber1747
heading machine1795
bruiser1809
finisher1835
stripper1835
physionotype1836
rotary1836
tetraspaston1842
netting-machine1846
speeder1847
dresser1855
spacer1857
starcher1862
bronzing liquid, machine1865
finishing machine1869
grader1869
brain machine1872
peanut roaster1872
bending machine1874
screw-machine1876
tire-upsetting-machine1877
buncher?1881
flax-breaker1889
oscillator1889
fluoroscope1893
fluorometer1897
mucker1916
spray dryer1921
paver1926
teabagger1940
burster1950
icemaker1953
laminator1958
slipform (concrete) paver1958
extruder1959
Zamboni1965
manipulator1968
wave machine1968
pipelayer1969
walking machine1971
1818 Times 14 Apr. 2/1 (advt.) To excavators, pipelayers, &c.—Notice is hereby given that the directors of this undertaking are ready to enter into contracts for the laying of considerable quantities of large and small iron mains and service pipes.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) II. 450/2 Rubbish-carters, or pipe-layers, or ground-workers.
1969 Engineering 25 Apr. 648/2 A Badger Minor trenchless pipelayer..has been specially adapted [for the simultaneous laying of four PVC cable ducts].
1998 Frederick (Maryland) Post 19 May b11/6 (advt.) Exp. pipelayer needed for established utility contractor installing water, sewage, & storm drains.
2. U.S. Politics slang. A person who manipulates an election, esp. by bringing in voters from a different electoral district on a pretext; a corrupt politician. Also (derogatory): a Whig (see Whig n.2 4b). Obsolete.Cf. to lay pipe at pipe n.1 Phrases 4.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > proceedings at election > [noun] > electoral corruption > one who
pipelayer1840
fixer?1881
1840 Huron Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) 1 Dec. The federalists are trying very hard to stigmatize the victorious democracy of our country, by the appellation of the pipe layers.
a1882 T. Weed Autobiogr. (1883) xlviii. 493 He said that the men..were to be employed in laying the pipes for the introduction of Croton water. The Whig leaders were immediately stigmatized as ‘pipe layers’, a term persistently applied to them for several years.
1896 C. H. Haswell Reminisc. Octogenarian in N.Y. 374 The Democratic papers dwelt upon the act and termed the perpetrators ‘pipe-layers’; which term was for a long while applied to them and to the party, and is still in current use to denote concealed and indirect methods of political or other action.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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