| 单词 | roof-spotter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroof-spotter roof-spotter n. an observer posted at the top of a building to give warning of hostile aircraft; also in extended use.Particularly associated with civil defence during the Second World War (1939–45). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > others concerned with military affairs > [noun] > air-raid warden, fire-watcher, etc. fire-watcher1830 street warden1835 air warden1933 air raid warden1936 warden1936 paraspotter1940 roof-spotter1940 roof-watcher1940 1940 Times 3 Oct. 5/3 The Government have approved the institution of roof-spotters, who can give special warning when they actually see the enemy approaching. 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 41 Jim Crow, normally used to describe the corps of roof-spotters guarding our large buildings. Now taken into service slang to denote the man on watch when ‘unofficial business’, such as cards, is being transacted. 1964 Winnipeg (Manitoba) Free Press 14 Dec. 40/2 About 1,000,000 Malaysians now are serving in a ‘vigilante corps’ of coastline watchers and roof spotters to halt Indonesian raiders. 2008 Sun (Nexis) 15 Aug. What about the fire watchers and roof spotters who did such a dangerous job? < as lemmas |
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