单词 | razor-grinder |
释义 | razor-grindern. 1. A person who grinds or sharpens razor blades. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of cutting instruments > [noun] > razor-grinder razor-grindera1723 a1723 G. Whitehead Christian Progress (1725) ii. 541 On the 13th of the 7th Month, 1683, John Manby of Broad-street, Constable..and one Gardiner, Razor-Grinder, near the Exchange, came..and broke open the Shop Back-door. 1750 J. Michell Treat. Artific. Magnets 23 The ends of the bars should be cleaned up after hardening, either upon a smooth Stone, or Razor-grinder's Wheel. 1798 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 22 Feb. (1941) I. 9 Met a razor-grinder with..a boy to drag his wheel. 1833 Boston Herald 19 Mar. 4/3 I afterwards met a razor grinder and his wife. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. ii. ii. 272 They are buhl cutters,..razor grinders, glass bevellers. 1933 Olean (N.Y.) Evening Times-Herald 17 Feb. 11/5 Mr. Schaff worked as a razor grinder in the Korn Razor Factory in the county seat. 1976 Past & Present May 96 Of the seven tenants, there were silver and electroplate polishers, and there was a pearl-shell grinder, a glass cutter, a razor grinder and a tube drawer. 2002 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 23 Apr. A glance through Heeley's Edwardian street registers shows every other household headed by cutlers and metalworkers—silversmiths, table knife finishers, file cutters, saw handle makers, razor grinders [etc.]. 2. Any of various birds having a call or song likened to the sound of a cut-throat razor being sharpened; spec. (a) Australian the restless flycatcher, Myiagra inquieta; (b) English regional the European nightjar, Caprimulgus europaeus; (c) English regional the grasshopper warbler, Locustella naevia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > miscellaneous types of > sisura inquieta (restless flycatcher) restless thrush1801 razor-grinder1822 grinder1848 restless flycatcher1848 scissors-grinder1875 1822 B. Field in G. Mackaness Fourteen Journeys Blue Mountains (1950) ii. 42 The notes of the birds of New Holland are rather cries than songs... Some are harsh and vulgar, like those of the..razor grinder. 1848 R. Howitt Impressions Austral. Felix 332 The razor-grinder, fitly so called from making a grinding noise as it wavers in one position a foot or two from the ground. 1895 P. H. Emerson Birds, Beasts, & Fishes Norfolk Broadland 153 The night~hawk, or big razor-grinder, as he is more rarely called in the Broadlands. 1899 W. A. Dutt Highways, Byways & Waterways E. Anglia 55 To..most of the marsh fraternity this small bird [sc. the grass-hopper warbler] is known as the razor-grinder. 1909 A. E. Mack Bush Cal. 51 Two razor-grinders flew hurriedly past to their nest. 1976 Reader's Digest Compl. Bk. Austral. Birds 386 Restless flycatcher Myiagra inquieta. Other names..razor grinder [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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