单词 | raker-up |
释义 | > as lemmasraker-up 2. gen. A person who rakes (in various senses). Also in raker-after, raker-up.hay-, moon-, muckraker, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > [noun] > types of search or searching > rummaging or thorough searching > one who raker1342 ferreter1611 rummager1723 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > gathering together > by scraping or raking > one who raker1614 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > [noun] > raking > one who rakera1642 1342 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 170 [10 carters 2 stackers] i Rakere. 1561 in R. H. Tawney & E. Power Tudor Econ. Documents (1924) I. 335 Rates for dayes wages... Women Rakers..ijd. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 37/1 Not repairers of peace, but rakers for money. 1614 S. Hieron All the Serm. 35 This crieth shame vpon the rakers and scrapers of this world. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 38 Rakers-after shoulde have charge given to rake cleane. 1703 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 329 To the ruckers of the hay and raikers thairof. 1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman V. Aug. vii. 61 [He may] lay it in true regular Rows, as he mows it, ready for the Raker. 1823 J. Wilson Trials Margaret Lyndsay xxix. 238 She used, half in work, half in pastime, to join the merry band of rakers. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. vii. 422 Greedy rakers up of gold. 1864 E. Edwards Libraries xii. 425 To rake from a dead man's private diaries and memoranda passages which, it is hoped by the raker, will cause pain. 1921 P. Gibbs More that must be Told i. 36 He stands pilloried for all time as a raker-up of old hatreds. 1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft vii. 153 Cooling down the fireline ahead of the rakers. 2005 Press & Sun-Bull. (Binghamton, N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Oct. 1 c Whether you are a raker of leaves in suburbia, a tender of terrace gardens in the city, or the harvester of produce in the country. < as lemmas |
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