单词 | sickler |
释义 | sicklern. 1. One who uses a sickle; a reaper. 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 1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Iob xxiv, in Paraphr. Divine Poems Their Sicklers reape the Corne another sowes. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 90 When on his golden tilths The farmer would the sickler bring. 1907 Notes & Queries 10th Ser. VIII. 114 In the cornfields, where more hands were needed—men as sicklers. 2. Pathology. A person with sickle cell anæmia or the sickle cell trait. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > deficiency of red cells > anaemia > types of > person sickler1932 thalassaemic1974 1932 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 183 388 Normal gall bladders have been observed in ‘sicklers’ at autopsy who have had attacks of severe pain and rigidity in the upper right quadrant of the abdomen. 1954 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Feb. 291/2 In a group of 102 sicklers from the Balovale district of Northern Rhodesia only 10 (9·8%) had blood slides showing malaria parasites, whereas in a comparable group of 491 non-sicklers 75 (15·3%) had malaria parasites. 1978 Observer 26 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 58/1 In the old days, ‘sicklers’ rarely reached adulthood. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1638 |
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