单词 | poulterer |
释义 | poulterern. A person whose business is the sale of poultry, eggs, and game; = poulter n. Poulterers' Company, Company of Poulterers: = Poulters' Company at poulter n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > companies involved in specific business misbeliefa1450 safeguarda1450 squatc1450 smearc1476 bleach1486 poulterer1534 water company1710 land-company1805 publishing house1819 railway company1824 oil company1827 bus line1843 rails1848 accountancy1860 art house1882 poulter1884 automaker1899 energy company1910 record label1926 label1930 utility1930 re-roller1931 prefabricator1933 seven sisters1962 energy firm1970 chipmaker1971 fragmentizer1972 fixit1984 infomediary1989 multi-utility1994 society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of provisions > seller of poultry or game poultera1400 poulterer1534 poultryman1538 turkey-merchant1699 rabbit-o1902 1534 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 126 The pulterers nor other freemen of the Towne. 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. vi. 493 The Priestes in our sauiour Christes time, suffered the exchaungers of money, Grasiers, and Pulterers to make a burse or shambles, and a poultrie. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pollaiuolo..a poultrer. Pollaitraro..a poultrer. Pollastriera, a woman poultrer. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. ii. 14 Counterfeiting himselfe a Poulterer, to sell certain foule which hee had gotten. 1684 London Gaz. No. 1955/4 Apprentice to Mr. Bayly, his Royal Highness's Polterer..in the Pall-Mall. 1724 J. Trenchard & T. Gordon Cato's Lett. III. 170 The Gentlemen through England have had their Estates ransacked..to put Fishmongers and Poulterers Wives..in Laces and Jewels. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. xii. 311 He himself had passed through that Field, in order to lay Wires for Hares, with which he was to supply a Poulterer at Bath the next Morning. View more context for this quotation 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 27 Poulterers hang up their animals in the feathers. 1812 ‘P. Pindar’ Anticipation 14 (note) Alluding to the Fishmongers' and Poulterers' Company. 1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 20 Dec. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vii. 450 An abundance of game at the poulterers. 1921 V. Woolf Unwritten Novel in Monday or Tuesday 42 My skin, too, felt like the damp chicken's skin in the poulterer's shop window. 1995 Methodist Recorder 3 Aug. 2/3 Mr Trudgian has been elected as a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Poulterers, one of London's ancient City Guilds which was responsible for trade in poultry and eggs from the year 1300. Compounds poulterer's measure n. historical and rare = poulter's measure n. at poulter n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [noun] > variety of > poulter's measure poulter's measure1575 short metre1718 poulterer's measure1841 1841 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. v. 382 Poulterer's Measure,—Alexandrines and Service Measures alternately. Found in the poetry of Henry the Eighth's time. 1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 263 There were some comparative failures, such as poulterer's measure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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