单词 | seamer |
释义 | seamern. 1. a. (See quot. 1843.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making hosiery > processes involved in > one who stocking-trimmer1723 seamer1843 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 181/1 There are three classes of operatives engaged [in the stocking-trade]: the ‘winders’..; the ‘stockingers’; and the ‘seamers’, who make the stockings out of the pieces thus produced... The ‘seamers’ are women. 1872 T. Cooper Life 141 He had also to pay so much per dozen to the female ‘seamer’ of the hose. b. A seaming-machine. ΚΠ a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 788/2 Seaming Machine. The Royer & Lincoln seamer..trims woven goods neatly and evenly; and joins the margin of cloth outside the seam. 2. Cricket. A seam bowler; also, a delivery by a seam bowler. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > types of delivery or ball full toss1826 long hop1830 twister1832 bail ball1833 bailer1833 grubber1837 slow ball1838 wide1838 ground ball1839 shooter1843 slower ball1846 twiddler1847 creeper1848 lob1851 sneak1851 sneaker1851 slow1854 bumper1855 teaser1856 daisy-cutter1857 popper1857 yorker1861 sharpshooter1863 headball1866 screwball1866 underhand1866 skimmerc1868 grub1870 ramrod1870 raymonder1870 round-armer1871 grass cutter1876 short pitch1877 leg break1878 lob ball1880 off-break1883 donkey-drop1888 tice1888 fast break1889 leg-breaker1892 kicker1894 spinner1895 wrong 'un1897 googly1903 fizzer1904 dolly1906 short ball1911 wrong 'un1911 bosie1912 bouncer1913 flyer1913 percher1913 finger-spinner1920 inswinger1920 outswinger1920 swinger1920 off-spinner1924 away swinger1925 Chinaman1929 overspinner1930 tweaker1938 riser1944 leg-cutter1949 seamer1952 leggy1954 off-cutter1955 squatter1955 flipper1959 lifter1959 cutter1960 beamer1961 loosener1962 doosra1999 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > bowler > types of bowler slow bowler1823 fast bowler1828 bias bowler1854 round-arm1858 demon bowler1861 left-hander1864 chucker1882 lobster1889 slow1895 leg-breaker1904 speed merchant1913 leg-spinner1920 spin bowler1920 off-spinner1924 quickie1934 tweaker1935 swerve-bowler1944 pace bowler1947 seam bowler1948 spinner1951 seamer1952 wrist-spinner1957 outswinger1958 swing bowler1958 quick1960 stock bowler1968 paceman1972 leggy1979 1952 Observer 25 May 10/1 R. Smith, with his medium-paced ‘seamers’—to use a modern and not too unmeaning term—and Bailey..began almost to persuade us that their names might be G. Lohmann and S. F. Barnes. 1955 Times 5 July 4/1 Silk was probably right in thinking that his seamers would get more out of it than his spinners. 1963 Times 13 June 3/1 It indicated that the intention of both captains was to rely entirely upon their seamers, which they duly did. 1976 E. R. Dexter & C. Makins Testkill 140 With the new ball due well before lunch he sensibly switched to Flinders' leg-spin and Lytton's seamers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas(rag) seamer 6. In the manufacture of shoddy: to remove the seams from old garments. Hence (rag) seamer as an occupational term. ΚΠ 1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict. < n.1843 as lemmas |
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