单词 | beatster |
释义 | beatstern.1 local. A mender or mounter of fishing-nets. (Sense of 1575quot. uncertain.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > one who repairs nets beatster1575 1575 Aldeburgh Rec. in Notes & Queries (1920) VII. 226/2 To iiiior poore foulks for carienge ye beetster to hir buryall..viiid. 1641 S. Smith Herring-bvsse Trade 4 For the Tanning and Beetsters work. 1808 Norfolk Tour (ed. 6) 43 This fishery gives bread..to about 2,000 fishermen, and 4,000 braiders, beetsters, towers, rivers, ferry-men [etc.]. 1858 Notes & Queries V. 116/1 Modern terms, such as one..hears among the fishermen of this coast [e.g. Beatsters, i.e. net menders (females)]. 1866 J. G. Nall Great Yarmouth & Lowestoft 292 In a long loft adjoining that of the ransackers, is the work-room of the beetsters, women and girls engaged in betting or mending up the nets. 1920 Notes & Queries VII. 267/2 A notice-board at Lowestoft..‘2 Beatsters wanted’. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §398 Beatster, beetster; fishing net mender, net mender, net repairer,..sometimes also a net mounter. 1932 Daily Mail 22 Sept. 4/6 Beatsters on the drift nets—stabbing their needles through a myriad meshes with rhythm. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020). beatstern.2 = beatnik n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society beard1667 come-outer1840 pagan1841 Bohemian1843 Greenwich Villager1887 weirdie1894 outsider1907 white nigger1934 beardo1935 isolate1942 weirdo1955 beat1958 beatnik1958 boho1958 beatster1959 way out1959 hippie1966 rebetis1966 homeboy1967 peanut1968 Yippie1968 suedehead1970 Goth1986 grebo1987 hipster1989 1959 New Statesman 6 June 795/1 The post-Presley teenage beatsters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.11575n.21959 |
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