| 单词 | silver-chaser |
| 释义 | > as lemmassilver-chaser (a) With agent-nouns, as silver-chaser, silver-lover, silver-miner, etc. ΚΠ a1400 Bible (Paues) Acts xix. 24 For one, whos name was Demetrye, þat was a siluer-maker,..he gafe [etc.]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 340/1 A Syluer maker or keper, argentarius. 1680 C. Ness Compl. Church-hist. 242 Those sordid silver-lovers..being courtiers had a fair opportunity. 1692 London Gaz. No. 2770/4 A Silver-spinner in Bunhill-fields. 1718 W. Penn Wks. (1726) I. 713 I being a Silver-Spinster. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 153 Mr. Mansel, silver polisher, in Corbet-court. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Silver-beater, one that foliates silver. 1815 Niles' Reg. VIII. 141/2 There are..2 silver platers; 3 trunk makers [etc.]. 1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 731 The silver-piercer sits at the silversmiths' and jewellers' ordinary work-bench. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) viii. 77 She is alive,..and is married to a silver-chaser. 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Silver-plater, an electrotyper. 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad vi. 57 To speak after the fashion of the silver miners. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1195/2 The bane of the gold and silver miner. < as lemmas |
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