单词 | shelterer |
释义 | shelterern. 1. a. One who takes shelter. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > seeking or taking shelter > one who shelterer1725 1725 London Gaz. No. 6346/4 For Relief of distressed Shelterers in the Mint. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. i. 8 Shivering shelterers from the rain. b. spec. One who takes shelter from an air-raid. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > air-raid shelter > one who uses shelterer1940 1940 R. Macaulay Lett. to Sister (1964) 116 The Central London tube was so crammed with thousands of shelterers that I couldn't get near the platform. 1944 Ourselves in Wartime v. 71 Tiers of bunks, canteens, adequate sanitation and first-aid posts were provided. These amenities helped the shelterers to make the best of a bad job. 1957 R. W. Zandvoort in Wiener Beiträge zur englischen Philologie LXV. 270 Air raid shelters were a necessary refuge... Books..were the best means to divert the attention of shelterers (as they were called) and others from the pressures and anxieties of life in wartime. 1980 P. Fitzgerald Human Voices xi. 163 The LPTB's bunks occupied the walls... Other shelterers had arrived. 2. One who shelters another. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [noun] > shelter > giving or affording shelter > one who shelterer1822 1822 Ld. Byron Werner iii. iv. 79 In leaving thus His shelterer's asylum to the risk Of a discovery. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xiii. 228 She..was liable to punishment herself, and they to punishment also, as her shelterers and accomplices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1725 |
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