单词 | street orderly |
释义 | street orderlyn. A person employed to keep the streets free of dirt and litter; a road sweeper. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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.]. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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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