| 单词 | polderman |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspolderman polderman n. now rare a labourer employed in making polders or farming polderland. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > reclamation from sea > reclaimer from sea polderman1884 polderboy1895 1884 G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Aug. 338/1 Little scattered hamlets of the fisher people and the polder-men. 1922 J. J. Feith Mod. Holland ii. 20 Instead of the polder farmer who, half a century ago was brought up as a cattle farmer, a new generation of poldermen grew up. 1953 G. H. T. Kimble Way of World 65 The perseverance of the French paysan, the Dutch polderman, the Canadian habitant, and the Norwegian fjord dweller is compounded of the same qualities. < as lemmas |
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