单词 | smelter |
释义 | smeltern.1 1. a. One who smelts; a workman engaged in smelting; also, an owner of smelting-works. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > refiner or smelter smelter1455 reducer1877 1455 in J. R. Walbran Mem. Abbey St. Mary of Fountains (1863) I. 364 [Nicholas Bucke employed by the abbot as a] smeltar [at his lead mines]. 1582 in Trans. Jewish Hist. Soc. Eng. (1903) 4 93 All manner of Charges of fireworke and smeltars wages. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 68 The smelter having taken to himself perhaps one part more for his expence. 1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. vii. 149 The miners usually..dispose of their ore to the smelters. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. ii. 38 The miner and smelter who extracted or prepared the iron. 1891 Daily News 6 July 2/6 Manufacturers and smelters are not disposed to accept forward contracts at the current rates. b. smelter's fume (see quot. 1875). ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2220/1 Smelter's Fume, the metallic fume resulting from the smelting of lead, the sublimation of zinc from ore, mercury from cinnabar, etc. 2. Smelting-works; a smeltery. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > for melting or smelting melting shop1555 smelting-house1610 smelt-house1693 smelt-mill1772 smeltery1814 forge1839 smelter1877 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 235 Several smelters are in course of construction to reduce these ores to ingots at home. 1890 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 July 3/2 On completion of eight additional smelters and other works. 3. attributive, as smelter-man, smelter returns. ΚΠ 1896 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 4 Sept. The millionaire smelterman. 1898 Liebold Woman Proposes 68 We tax the gross output of the mines based on the mill and smelter returns. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). smeltern.2 One who fishes for smelts; a smelt-catcher. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > for others shadder1630 smelter1845 grayling angler1847 haker1856 sharker1885 snoeker1959 1845 Zoologist 3 1080 A smelter may be deemed the personification of patience. 1883 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads iii. 23 The smelter passes the night in his boat. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11455n.21845 |
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