单词 | screwer-together |
释义 | > as lemmasscrewer-together 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. < as lemmas |
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