单词 | poller |
释义 | pollern.ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > spoiler or plunderer > [noun] riflera1350 ravenerc1384 pillerc1385 preyerc1390 raptora1398 peelera1425 despoiler1467 spulyierc1475 pillardc1485 ruggerc1485 pollera1513 booty-fellow1530 spoiler1535 caterpillar1541 kitea1556 ransacker?1576 predator1581 lurdan1589 worm1591 scraper1598 pillager?1611 ravager1611 bird of preya1616 depredator1626 plunderer1639 expilator1658 shark1713 depredationist1828 spoliator1831 rapiner1843 ravisher1851 a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxii. sig. h.ii True men myght lyue, without vexacyon Pollers, promoters, had no domynacyon. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges iii. sig. Niij Porters and powlers, & specyally false takers On these..spare must thou none expence. 1560 Bp. J. Pilkington Aggeus the Prophete (1562) 66 The gredy carle and prowling poller, that is neuer filled. 1607 S. Hieron Discovery of Hypocrisie 54 It was not enough for Zacheus, that..hee was no poller or robber of the poore. 1640 Sir J. Culpeper in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 33 A Nest of Wasps, or Swarm of Vermin,..the Monopolers and Polers of the People. 1674 T. Staveley Romish Horseleech xxi. 164 That pillar and poller and filcher of our money. 1782 Entick's New Spelling Dict. (new ed.) 312/2 Poller,..a robber. 2. a. A person who cuts hair; a barber. Now English regional (northern) and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > barbers and hairdressers > [noun] barberc1330 cutterc1425 clipperc1440 raster cloth1440 poller1578 trimmer1583 dressera1596 shavester1620 razor-chirurgeon1624 suds-monger1638 tonsor1656 hair-man1689 head-dresser1697 friseur1750 hairdresser1771 scraper1791 depilator1836 coiffeur1847 Figaro1864 strap1864 tonsorialist1869 trichotomist1875 nai1883 hair-stylist1935 stylist1937 styler1960 crimper1966 Sweeney1966 scissorsmith2002 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 1st Pt. v. iv. sig. Fiij Row. I know him not, is he a deaft barber? Grim. O, yea, why he is Mistris Lamias powler. 1608 H. Clapham Errour Right Hand 78 Bald pated all, like to an holy Friar, That lately had been in the Pollers hands. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 128/2 Poler, an ancient term used for the cutter of hair. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Powler, a hair cutter. 1877 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire 158 Poler, a barber... From the sign of a barber's shop, a long painted pole... Others derive it from ‘pole’, the head. ΚΠ 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Poller, one that lops or polls trees. 3. a. A person who votes, esp. in an election; a voter. Now rare. 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] > registering or casting votes > one who votes at election poller1715 1715 J. Cotton Caveat against Rome & France 23 That Monsieur Crumpton that went to accompany the Pollers in Covent-Garden, crying, The Church, The Church. 1777 Ann. Reg. 1776 121/1 The total number of pollers at this election. 1807 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1808) 11 58 Who'll come forward and now be my poller? 1945 H. A. Larrabee Reliable Knowl. 659 Gallup defended his ‘doctoring’ of his pollers' returns. 1988 Amer. Football News 17 Nov. 3/4 55 percent of pollers voted that Young should be calling the plays for the 49ers. ΚΠ 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Poller, one that registers voters. c. = pollster n. ΚΠ 1938 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 6 Oct. 4/6 The state committee hired an expert commercial poller to measure Dewey's chances against three possible nominees. 1956 W. E. Albig Mod. Public Opinion x. 181 In 1936 [he] was already a market researcher and poller of long experience. 1976 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 70 1235/1 About three fifths of the California public had no trouble telling pollers whether they were for or against the (nonexistent) Metallic Metals Act. 2004 Bangor (Maine) Daily News (Nexis) 1 Jan. a1 More than 90 percent of Mainers told pollers their visits to bars would increase or remain the same if the bars went smoke-free. 4. Telecommunications and Computing. A unit which automatically obtains information about the status or contents of other devices or nodes in a network and reports this to a central station, esp. as part of a repeated cycle of such operations. ΚΠ 1971 N.Y. Times 21 Oct. 68 The automatic dialler and poller permit a central station to poll up to 20 pre-selected telephone numbers automatically to send or receive copy. 1986 Communications News 23 34 (title) A PC poller can provide many helpful services while collecting data for your call accounting. 2003 Network Computing (Nexis) 6 Feb. 32 Most low-priced network management products now include distributed pollers, which poll devices and report back to the central or master server. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1513 |
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