单词 | salter |
释义 | saltern.1 1. A manufacturer of or dealer in salt; also spec. = drysalter n., as in the title of one of the London livery companies (incorporated in 1558). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in food and drink > in specific foodstuffs saltera1000 oilman1275 oysterman1305 pepperer1309 butchera1325 mealman1527 pepper mana1661 butter factor1696 porkman1749 flour-factor1815 macaroni dealer1854 a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 97 Sealtera [sic], hwæt us fremaþ cræft þin? c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) ix. 47 Hic salinator, þes sealtere. 1392 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 342 Rob's Scott salter. 1402 Rolls of Parl. III. 519/2 Rob't Brendewod, William Estace, Salters. 1418 Jrnl. Archives City of London 1 51 Sal emptum per Bemond et Edwardum, Salters, infra civitatem Londoniarum vend'. 1507 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 22 Andrewe Evyngar, Cytezen and Salter of london. 1573 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 1st Ser. II. 293 The saidis salteris sall sell salt to the subjectis and carearis of this realme of sufficient mett and stuff. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Maligne, a Spring-tyde; called so by the Salters of Xaintonge. 1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 125 It is commonly sold in Salters-shops at Billingsgate. 1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. iv. 44 As a salter, A. B. has had experience enough in the materials for dying. 1846 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors IV. cxxiii. 567 The subject of this memoir was the son of a grocer and salter at Exeter. 2. A workman at a salt-works. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > salt manufacture > [noun] > salt-worker weller1440 salt-maker1483 saliner1543 waller1600 salter1606 saltweller1624 wich-waller1670 salt-worker1680 brine-manc1682 brinerc1682 wich-man1688 1606 Sc. Acts Jas. VI c. 10 That na persone..sall fie hyre or conduce ony saltaris Coilȝearis or coilberaris without ane sufficient testimoniall of thair Maister quhome they last seruit. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. vii. 140 If sae mickle as a coallier or a salter make a moonlight flitting. 1869 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Gleanings I. 103 The colliers and salters..were only finally emancipated in 1799. 3. a. One who salts meat or fish. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving with salt > one who salts salter1611 1611 J. Spicer (title) The sale of Salt, or, The seasoning of Soules, Namely such, as..whom the Author, which taketh the name of a Salter, is willing..to season with the Salt of the Word. 1714 Craig Answer in R. Smith Poems 12 Thy Colledge has been at Buckhaven, Where thou hast past thy time years seven Among the Salters and the Fishers. 1757 W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate 41 They were salted by the King's Salters. 1779 Ann. Reg. 1778 Projects 125/1 The salter..crams as much salt as he can into the belly of the fish. 1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 310 His wife and daughters are ‘gutters’ or packers or salters. b. One who salts bodies, in embalming. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > embalming > one who powderer1555 embalmer1587 balmera1618 salter1705 1705 T. Greenhill Νεκροκηδεια 283 The Surgeon or Embalmer, and..all other inferior Officers under him, such as the Dissector, Emboweller, Pollinctor, Salter. 4. A large vessel in which flesh is salted. dialect. ΚΠ 1884 R. Jefferies Red Deer 85 A farmer who had shot a deer put the animal as soon as possible into the salter out of sight. 1891 R. P. Chope Dial. Hartland, Devonshire Salter (zălter), a large stone or earthenware trough used in salting bacon, etc. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † saltern.2 Building. Obsolete. (See quot. 1688.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > masons' and bricklayers' tools > for cutting or dressing bricks brick axe?1502 salter1688 banker1700 float-stone1700 bedding-stone1823 bolster1908 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 343/1 The Salter or Brick Axe..is to cut the rough and knotty places of Bricks, to make them lye flat and even in the Bed of Mortar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1a1000n.21688 |
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