spectacle-makern.
1. One who makes spectacles.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > maker of spectacles
spectacle-maker1530
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 274/1 Spectacle maker, lunettier.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Besiclier, a Spectacle-maker.
1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. i. iv. 168 Des-Cartes does acknowledge with other writers, that perspective-glasses were..first found out..casually by one Metius, a Dutch spectacle-maker.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Telescope Fifty Years afterwards, a Telescope, 12 Inches long, was made..by a Spectacle-maker of Middlebourg.
1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 119/1 [List of City Companies] Spectacle-makers.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 258/1 Not only were spectacle-makers the first to produce glass magnifiers (or simple microscopes), but [etc.].
2. One who makes no score in either innings in a game of cricket.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > types of batsman
sticker1832
short runner1833
punisher1846
slogger1850
blocker1851
cutter1851
swiper1853
top scorer1860
stick1863
left-hander1864
smiter1878
centurion1886
driver1888
pad-player1888
poker1888
spectacle-maker1893
back-player1897
hooker1900
under-runner1903
puller1911
square cutter1920
straight driver1925
stroke-maker1927
goose-gamer1928
stroke-player1935
flasher1936
sweeper1961
tonker1977
1893 Star 8 July 4/2 The compiler has been cruel enough to set out a full..list of spectacle makers during the whole term of years.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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