英语词汇“big piecer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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big piecer

big piecer n. Spinning (now chiefly historical) the senior of the two assistants to a spinner in a cotton mill; opposed to little piecer.

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1819Big piecers [see sense A. 11b].

1910 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 4/1 There are over 40,000 male cotton-piecers who earn from 8s. 6d. to 15s. 6d. as little-piecers (youths), and from 13s. 6d. to 22s. 6d. as big-piecers (young men).

2003 A. Fowler Lancs. Cotton Operatives & Work ii. 18 Any spinner falling out of work..might face the ignominy of being forced to accept employment as a big piecer.

extracted from bigadj.adv.

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单词	big piecer
释义	> as lemmas big piecer big piecer n. Spinning (now chiefly historical) the senior of the two assistants to a spinner in a cotton mill; opposed to little piecer. ΚΠ 1819Big piecers [see sense A. 11b]. 1910 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 4/1 There are over 40,000 male cotton-piecers who earn from 8s. 6d. to 15s. 6d. as little-piecers (youths), and from 13s. 6d. to 22s. 6d. as big-piecers (young men). 2003 A. Fowler Lancs. Cotton Operatives & Work ii. 18 Any spinner falling out of work..might face the ignominy of being forced to accept employment as a big piecer. extracted from bigadj.adv. < as lemmas
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