单词 | shearer |
释义 | shearern. One who or something which shears. 1. A reaper of standing crops. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower reapmanOE reaperOE mower1225 shearer1318 puller1332 winner1352 repstera1450 harvestman1552 scytheman1577 harvester1589 sickler1638 messor1656 cradler1766 grass mower1779 thraver1813 reapa1825 bagger1844 cradle-man1889 1318–9 in Shropshire Arch. Soc. Trans. (1903) 3rd Ser. 3 51 Rogerus mendepas sherar. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 687/11 Hic messor, a scherer. c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. Matt. xiii. 30 In the tyme of ripe corn I sal say to the scheraris [etc.]. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 45 Both shearers and binders had neede to bee armed with gloves. 1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 138 An', hint a' the shearers, wi' Peggy, I bindet the buttles o' grain. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1066 Gloves of sheep-skin made on purpose, called shearer's gloves. 2. One who removes the fleece from an animal. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > sheep-shearer clippera1382 shearer1388 sheep-shearer1539 forcer1553 fleecer1612 tiger1865 tomahawker1870 snagger1887 boss of the board1896 gun1898 jingling Johnny1904 barrowman1940 ryebuck shearera1957 barrower1965 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 1 Sam. xxv. 11 The fleischis of beestis, whiche Y haue slayn to my schereris. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiiiv Take hede of ye sherers for twitching ye shepe with the sheres. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iii. 40 Shee hath made-me four and twenty Nose-gayes for the shearers . View more context for this quotation 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King Then how to scramble at the shearers feast. 1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 817 A good shearer shears seventy or eighty sheep in a day. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > shearing > one who shearmanc1275 shearer1473 cloth-shearer?c1530 cropper1711 1473 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 17 To Sandy Balfoure the scherare, for certane clath schorne be him. 1679 T. Jordan London in Luster 17 Wool-combers, Sheerers, Dressers [etc.]. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > front or incisor fore-toothc1000 cutter1579 shearer1610 shredder1650 incisora1682 incisive1804 incisor tooth1830 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xxvi. 260 The vpper teeth, which are the shearers in the vpper chappe. 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse v. vi. 211 The Shearers or Fore-teeth. 5. = shearman n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > worker involved in shearing metal bar-cutter1874 shearer?1881 shearman?1881 cropper1921 ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 93 Wrought Iron Manufacture..Shearer or Shearman. 6. a. A machine designed to cut metal, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > shears or scissors > [noun] > machine shearer1890 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 60 Drilling-machines, punchers, squeezers, shearers, all of mighty size. b. A coal-cutting machine that cuts in a vertical plane parallel to the coal face. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > coal-cutting machines iron man1827 overcutter1946 plough1946 cutter-loader1948 shearer1956 trepanner1956 1956 E. Mason Deputy's Man. I. xviii. 258 Most of the cutter-loading machines use vertical shearers which make a cut perpendicular to the plane of the seam... Disc shearers have picks attached to a vertical wheel rotating on a horizontal shaft. 1971 New Scientist 29 July 260/1 As the shearer cuts its way along the face, coal was automatically loaded on to a conveyor. 1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Jan. 90/1 By far the most common coal-getting machine in use to-day is known as the shearer.., which removes a slice of coal of about two-thirds of a metre in depth from the face by a revolving drum fitted with tungsten carbide tipped picks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1318 |
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