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单词 redder-up
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redder-up
2. A person who clears up, puts things in order, etc., spec. a person employed to clear away debris in a quarry or mine. Also redder-up.
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1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. f. 133v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Reddar Draweris of dead wark and reddaris of harlis shaft.
1628 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 296 To the redderis of the quarrell.., to the craig redder.
1713 in W. Grossart Hist. Notices Parish Shotts (1880) 240 An oversman had one hundred pounds... The redder of the heugh had a firlot of meal and ane pound of candle in the week.
1749 in W. Hector Judicial Rec. Renfrewshire II. (1878) 193 He and the rest of his companions..have for a long space bygone Entered into the Deffender's Barn, where two thresshers and a redder were at work.
1890 Daily News 7 Nov. 5/1 The agreeable objects which salute the eye of the ‘redder up’.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Redder, a shiftman at a colliery employed in reddin.
1938 19th Cent. Mar. 322 He called for someone to sort them [sc. papers and letters]... I suggested Baker as a redder-up.
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