单词 | pipelayer |
释义 | pipelayern. 1. A person who or machine which lays pipes for water, gas, etc. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1818 |
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