| 单词 | roadhand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroadhand roadhand n. (a) a person, esp. a labourer, employed in making and repairing roads; (b) Australian a person hired to assist in driving cattle, sheep, etc., on the road (now rare). Π 1832 Transylvania Jrnl. Med. 5 513 The road hands who have, this season, been employed in constructing a road leading along the side of the hill directly north of the city. 1873 J. E. Lester Atlantic to Pacific v. 28 At this station..we shall see the ‘John Chinamen’ as road-hands. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 264 Two men, who had contracted to act as road hands and to make themselves generally useful. 1920 Southern Reporter 84 396 The evidence shows that the road hands in charge of an overseer or foreman committed the trespass. 2000 Southwest Contractor (Nexis) Apr. 9 The names of roadhands, contractors and engineers are slated to be memorialized in a monument. < as lemmas |
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