| 单词 | skull-thatcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskull-thatcher b. With agent-nouns, as skull-cracker, skull-hunter, skull-slinger, skull-thacker, skull-thatcher. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > to obtain (part of) body skull-hunter1706 headhunter1800 Burkite1830 burker1831 headshrinker1921 1706 E. Baynard Cold Baths (1709) ii. 394 Rats-bane [a physician].., who was but a young Skull-slinger then. 1719 A. Ramsay 2nd Answer to Hamilton ii But me ye ne'er sae crouse had craw'd Ye poor scull-thacker! 1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. xiii. 385 A splendid green-stone Meri, heirloom of her deceased lord, and the skull-cracker no doubt of a hundred foes. 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 94 Skull thatchers, straw bonnet makers,—sometimes called ‘bonnet-builders’. 1863 M. E. Braddon Aurora Floyd II. xi. 270 ‘I'll find my skull-thatcher if I can,’ said Captain Prodder, groping for his hat amongst the brambles. 1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 62 In spite of the depredations of ‘skull hunters’, we rode a considerable distance over ground..thickly strewn with human bones. 1902 J. Chalmers in Life (1905) xx. 98/2 That they are skull-hunters I do not doubt. < as lemmas |
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