| 单词 | shop club |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshop club shop club n. †(a) (probably) a club or cudgel regarded as the typical weapon of a workshop apprentice (obsolete rare); (b) a club or society providing support or benefits to workers at a factory or other place of employment.Quot. a1641 illustrating sense (a) appears to be an isolated use, but for the association of apprentices and clubs in Elizabethan and Jacobean London, cf. prentices and clubs at club n. 1c. ΚΠ a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) i. iii 'Tis not fit that every Apprentice should with his shop-club, betwixt us play the sticklers, sheath thy sword. 1844 Manch. Guardian 11 Sept. 5/5 In their benefit clubs and shop clubs, and private coteries, let them make joint efforts. 1902 Act 2 Edward VII c. 21 (title) An Act to prohibit compulsory Membership of Unregistered Shop Clubs or Thrift Funds. 2001 Econ. Hist. Rev. 54 182 There is..more than a slight resemblance between the character and ethos of the working-class shop club or trade union and the coffee houses of polite society. < as lemmas |
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