单词 | plater |
释义 | platern. 1. A person who coats or plates articles with a thin layer of gold, silver, or other metal. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > worker who coats or plates platerer1664 plater1719 spinner1884 metallizer1958 1719 Boston Selectmen's Minutes 27 Apr. (1885) xiii. 52 Sundry Stranger Newcomers..by order of the Select men wr warned to depart... Robert Grims & John Brown both Coopers. John Hambleton, Richard Hanford & Josep Watts Platers & George Glin Tayler..were..warned to depart. 1777 Birmingham Directory 5 Bewhouse, Thomas, Plater. 1798 W. Hutton Life App. E. 132 A buckle-plater sued O and M for a guinea. 1830 N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 404 I went to the platers, where every species of silver and plated ware is produced. 1884 Brit. Almanac Compan. 123 A working-man..employed as a silver plater. 1937 E. S. Hedges Protective Films on Metals (ed. 2) ix. 297 Adhesion,..from the plater's viewpoint concerns not only the boundary between the coating and basis metals, but the tendency to part by fracture in the coating. 1991 Metalworking Production Sept. 79/1 Take electroplating, it's reckoned that 50% of today's platers may go out of business for want of funds to meet environmental legislation standards. 2. Horse Racing. A horse which competes chiefly in plate races (see plate n. 7); (also) an inferior racehorse. Also figurative.selling plater: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > in specific kind of race plate horse1740 flat1811 mile-horse1829 steeplechaser1839 plater1859 all-ages1864 trace-mate1880 chaser1884 flat-racer1886 handicapper1890 miler1894 point-to-pointer1929 1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn xxxi. 261 You might have guessed, Master Grog, that she never could be a ‘Plater’. 1864 Admiral Rous in Edinb. Rev. July 124 The form of the best race-horse in 1750 is inferior to those of the commonest plater of the present day. 1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier i. iii. 32 The chap who rode a plater down the Khyber cliffs. 1975 New Yorker 25 Aug. 50/2 The time for the mile and a quarter was 2:02; platers can do that. 1993 Racing Post 20 Feb. 6/3 Which former selling plater landed a Grade 1 race at Ascot in December? 3. A person employed in the manufacture or application of metal plates, esp. in shipbuilding.steel-, tin-plater, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > maker or fitter of plates plater1863 plate-worker1906 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 149 Platers, riveters, drillers, clippers. 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding x. 194 The fitting, marking, and fixing of the outside plating are performed by a party of workmen known as platers. 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Platers, skilled mechanics..who mark, shear, roll, flange, bend, shape, punch.., set, fit, and fix in place..the steel plates..&c., for the outside and inside and hull of a ship, or for boilers and bridges. 1935 G. Blake Shipbuilders xii. 359 A man called McDougall, once a plater, standing fat and greasy and slack and hopeless at Govan Cross in a canyon of grey tenements. 1974 Socialist Worker 26 Oct. 16/5 The strike of Cammell Lairds Outfit Trades and Ancillary workers is now entering its second week. The strike is over a claim for parity with the platers. 1999 Daily Tel. 9 Sept. 3/1 The men, two welders and two platers, were working on the Avonmouth Bridge on the M5 near Bristol when the accident happened. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > calendering equipment supercalender1873 platera1884 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 691/1 Plater, a paper calendering machine... The paper is packed between smooth plates of zinc or copper, and passed between the rolls back and forth till the desired finish is obtained. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1719 |
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