| 单词 | running patterer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrunning patterer d. That moves from place to place in the course of his or her profession, duties, etc.; itinerant. Frequently in running patterer, running stationer. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > [adjective] > moving swiftly and briskly lightOE quiverOE wight1390 yerna1400 sharpc1440 fisking?1523 skeetc1540 nimblea1547 flit1590 brisk1599 brisky1600 smart1602 whipping1602 running1662 nimble-movinga1676 snack1710 brushing1792 adance1828 slippy1847 nippy1849 smartish1921 hoppy1934 1662 R. Codrington tr. G. Ruggle Ignoramus ii. ii. sig. F3 (stage direct.) A Hawker, or running seller of Pamphlets. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Running-stationers, Hawkers, or those that cry News and Books about the Streets. 1728 J. Gill Expos. Bk. Solomon's Song 246 The keepers of the walls..; the one was a running watch, the other a standing one. 1771 S. Neville Diary 28 Sept. (1950) vi. 123 I will by no means be exhibited as an unfeed lawyer or..a running Physician. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 78 Persons..supplemental to the regular Priest..as ‘running Lecturers’, now here, now there, over a certain district. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 214/2 That order or species of the pattering genus known as ‘running patterers’, or ‘flying stationers’. 1881 Brit. Vet. Jrnl. 13 387 Those men who have been employed for many years as dispensers and nurses, or to use a recognised term, ‘running doctors’. 1906 Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. 6 50 A donation to a ‘Running Preacher’ (not in church) is 6d. only. 1968 Observer 5 May 3/1 (in figure) Sister Lay Tin Lim (Scrub Sister)... Sister Ilsa Wolfe (Running Sister). 1998 D. Vlock Dickens, Novel Reading, & Victorian Pop. Theatre iv. 122 The running patterer also speaks a professional cant influenced..by popular entertainments. < as lemmas |
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