单词 | screwer |
释义 | screwern. 1. A person who or thing which screws (in various senses of the verb).In quot. c1580: a person who spends time unwisely, sinning against God. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with other fastenings corderc1430 clasper1551 screwerc1580 c1580 W. H. in tr. J. Calvin Comentaries First Epist. Ihon & Epist. Iude Ep. Ded. sig. B.ijv Can these tyme scruers, hypocrites, and prophane men, perswade themselues that thei shall be the first? 1729 E. Stewart Let. 25 Mar. in J. Stevenson Two Cent. Life in Down (1920) x. 237 Calling them Rackers of Rents and Scruers of Tythes. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. v. 214 The locks of flax are screwed into the holders by a boy called the screwer. 1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 285 The gun is sent to the screwer to have..the breech pin fitted. 1893 ‘Lesser Columbus’ Greater Bristol iv. 217 The Standard Screwer..forms perhaps one of the most permanent advances ever made in boot-making machinery. 1939 Times 28 Apr. 10/5 Boot and Shoe Manufacture.—All workers in productive processes other than labourers, except:..M.S. sewer; heel attacher; screwer. 1987 S. Bellow More die of Heartbreak 41 If my father had had so much family feeling he wouldn't have been such a screwer of other men's wives. 2000 Sciences May 42/3 The world turns on the imbalance between the screwer and the screwed. 2. Criminals' slang. A thief who picks locks; (more generally) a burglar, a housebreaker. Cf. screwsman n.See also thimble-screwer n. at thimble n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > burglar > [noun] housebreakera1400 burglary1533 burglar1541 burglarer1598 mill1607 mill-ken1667 hoister1708 crack1749 cracksman1819 screwsman1819 screwer1831 crib-cracker1879 cracker1886 key worker1895 houseman1904 home invader1907 in and out man1961 1831 G. Henson Civil Hist. Framework-knitters iv. 254 Screwer is a general term for housebreakers who enter with picklock keys. 1932 ‘S. Wood’ Shades of Prison House p. ii The smash-and-grab man, the afternoon screwer of poor men's houses, the whiz-man and the homosexual pervert end up—in gaol! 1947 Sci. News 4 50 The back of a pub where you and a ‘screwer’..had decided to ‘do a bust’. 2002 F. Fraser & J. Morton Mad Frank's Brit. 9 There's a theory that burglaries happen within a mile of the screwer's home. Compounds With adverbs, forming compound agent nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of screw v., as screwer-down, screwer-up, screwer-together, etc. ΚΠ 1647 E. Ashmole tr. G. F. Spina in W. Lilly Worlds Catastrophe 12 Speculators, and screwers out of the secrets of God. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 484 I am, saith he, incredibly taken with Musick and Dancing..it seemeth a Screwer up of lower Passions (more than Pins). 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 101/2 Stick-maker, flint-maker and mounter or screwer together. 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 21 Oct. 204 A cruel screwer down of the labourers. 1842 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 342 I left the carbine in charge of Jones, a very clever ‘screwer together’. 1907 Proc. Council Governor of Bombay 1906 276 A large section of the native press denounce Government as bleeders of the country, oppressors of the poor, screwers out of the last pie. 1918 Iron Trade Rev. 31 Oct. 1017/2 Shipbuilding and Repairing..Rivet heater, screwer-up, counter and tester. 2000 Daily Mail (Nexis) 27 Jan. 85 Faldo did not know if David was going to be the next great golf coach or the next great screwer up of the golf swing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1580 |
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