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单词 street orderly
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street orderlyn.

Brit. /ˌstriːt ˈɔːdəli/, U.S. /ˌstrit ˈɔrdərli/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: street n., orderly n.
Etymology: < street n. + orderly n. Compare earlier street-sweeper n. at street n. and adj. Compounds 4, street cleaner n. at street n. and adj. Compounds 2.
A person employed to keep the streets free of dirt and litter; a road sweeper.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > one who
mucker1229
raker1327
canel raker?1518
masser-scourer?1518
scavenger1530
sweep-street1553
channel raker1575
broom-man1592
broom-boy1593
gutter-master1607
rake-kennel1707
fulyie man1826
road sweeper1832
crossing-sweeper1841
street orderly1848
orderly1851
scavager1851
scaffy1853
broomer1857
sweep1858
roader1883
1848 Times 1 Dec. 3/6 It appeared that the association employ a number of ‘street orderlies’ in cleansing the streets, courts, and alleys of St. James' and two other parishes.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 259/2 The first appearance of the street-orderlies in the metropolis was in 1843.
1895 Times 28 Mar. 4/6 E. B. and J. L. street orderlies in the employ of the St. Giles's Board of Works.
1958 Daily Mail 25 Oct. 5/2 It happened to the rat-catcher (he's now a rodent operator), the dustman (refuse collector), and the sweeper (street orderly).
2005 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 2 Dec. 26 Combating the grime is also a power washing machine and two street orderlies (traditional road sweepers) working throughout the day.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as street-orderly boy, street-orderly system, etc.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 257/2 The street-orderly system of scavaging.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 10/2 The street-orderly boys are to undergo a medical examination before being placed on the establishment.
1992 J. Cooper et al. in W. H. Bassett Clay's Handbk. Environm. Health (ed. 16) vii. 639/1 The simplest conventional form of street cleansing is the road sweeper with a street orderly barrow.
2001 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 Oct. 12 My father was a street orderly boy, at Hanover Square, and then a tram driver.
C2.
street-orderly bin n. now disused an iron box erected at the side of a street to take refuse.
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1874 Jackson Sentinel (Maquoketa, Iowa) 20 Aug. 1/3 He knew the difference between the two kinds of pillar-boxes: one for letters, and one—called a ‘street orderly bin’—for all manner of dirt and refuse in Fleet St.
1949 L. B. Escritt Munic. Engineer iii. 78 Some local authorities employ street inspectors or district inspectors... It is their duty to supervise the erection of letter-boxes, telephone boxes, street orderly bins, fire alarms, [etc.].

Derivatives

street-orderlyism n. Obsolete the system of employing street orderlies.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning streets > [noun] > system of
orderlyism1851
street-orderlyism1851
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 257/2 The system called Street-Orderlyism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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