单词 | bottle-cleaner |
释义 | bottle-cleanern. 1. A brush, substance, or solution used to clean bottles. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > other cleaning methods, devices, or substances > [noun] > substances ox-gall?c1450 Spanish white1546 pipeclay1732 bottle-cleaner1788 ox bile1815 amole1831 benzol1838 benzine-collas1864 benzene1872 benzoline1874 varnish-remover1965 1788 J. Woodforde Diary 1 Feb. (1931) V. 96 Paid him for a Bottle-Cleaner of Wire &c. 1893 Bull. Pharmacy Nov. 524/1 Clean sand is a convenient and thorough bottle-cleaner. 1960 Chem. Week 24 Sept. ii. (Buyers' Guide) 174/1 A mixture of gluconic acid and liquid caustic soda..used in breweries and dairies as a highly efficient bottle cleaner. 2009 M. Fraser & S. J. Girling Rabbit Med. & Surg. Vet. Nurses iii. 39 Bottles should be cleaned with a bottle cleaner rather than just rinsing. 2. a. A person who cleans bottles as part of his or her job. ΚΠ 1844 Lancet 19 Oct. 106/1 The errand-boys and bottle-cleaners of apothecaries. 1875 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 12 Mar. 664/2 Bottle cleaners cannot be too careful not to leave any shot in the bottle. 1931 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 94 248 A dock labourer..with a wife and daughter of 19 who works as a bottle-cleaner. 2001 V. Suarez Banyan 11 My father started as a bottle cleaner, then a packer, and before long he sat in front of fluorescent lights and inspected the clean bottles before they were filled with beer. b. A machine for cleaning bottles. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > other cleaning methods, devices, or substances > [noun] > devices comb-brush1611 pickler1758 pegwood1822 bottle washer1826 knife-board1829 riper1880 file-card1884 iron cloth1889 bottle-cleaner1896 soot-blower1930 1896 Amer. Brewers' Rev. Nov. 19 (advt.) The Tunelius automatic bottle cleaner. 1927 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 42 1963 An automatic bottle cleaner with three soaking compartments containing detergent solutions. 2002 J. Hoar Hit xxx. 154 The brutal murder of a woman operating a bottle cleaner at the dairy became ‘The Case of the Bludgeoned Milkmaid’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1788 |
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