单词 | bone boiler |
释义 | > as lemmasbone boiler bone boiler n. a person employed to boil or steam bones used in the manufacture of glue, bone meal, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > who boil bones bone boiler1800 trotter-boiler1883 1800 Oracle & Daily Advertiser 6 Aug. Mr. —— took 1 chaldron out of 20 Pool measure, that he was sending to a bone boiler at Hoxton. 1906 Daily Chron. 26 May 2/7 Bone boilers and tallow melters. 1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman vii. 124 They took the foulest kind of jobs as bone boilers, horse skinners, street cleaners and glue makers. < as lemmas |
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