单词 | bottomer |
释义 | bottomern. 1. Coal Mining. A person who works at the pit bottom. Cf. pit-bottomer n. at pit n.1 Compounds 2 Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who works in specific part of mine bottomer1721 surfacer1852 topman1890 bottom1892 face-man1919 face-worker1926 1721 T. Parkyns Method hiring & recording Servants 13 Wastmen who remove and set the Wood, Gigmen who take off the Skeps of Coals at the Pitt-mouth, and Bottomers who hang them on at the bottom, per Diem in Summer—0 1 2 [l.s.d.] 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 345 The Bottomer, Bridger, or Hooker-on fastens the same [Corves] to the tackling-chain. 1842 Children's Employm. Comm.: 1st Rep.: Mines 97 in Parl. Papers XV. 1 The bottomer hooks on their whirley to the engine-rope and returns them with an empty one. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 110 Bottomer, the man stationed at the bottom of a shaft in charge of the proper loading of cages,..etc. 1923 Times 30 July 10/6 The explosion occurred near the bottom of the old pit shaft. Andrew Airlie, an elderly pit bottomer, was thrown against the wall. 1928 H. Lauder Roamin' in Gloamin' iii My Uncle Sandy was a ‘bottomer’ in Eddlewood Colliery. 2005 S. Elmes Talking for Brit. x. 247 There were dozens of separate jobs down a Northumbrian pit, from bottomers and buttockers, corvers and crutters to horse-fettlers (ostlers) and putters to wailers and trappers. 2. A person who makes or fits the bottom for something, esp. a chair. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of furniture or furnishings > [noun] > worker involved in chair-making bottomer1723 chair binder?1881 chair frame maker1897 chair-framer1921 chair matter1921 chair rusher1921 chair seater1921 1723 London Gaz. No. 6194/7 Elizabeth Squibb..Cane-Chair Bottomer. 1754 W. Dodd Sisters I. i. viii. 33 Charlotte was the daughter of an humble basket-maker, or, as some hold, a bottomer of chairs. 1831 W. Howitt Bk. Seasons (1833) 314 There is the chair-bottomer, with his great sheaf of rushes on his back. 1886 New Princeton Rev. May 434/1 The shoe-bottomers of Lynn form a union. 1984 S. Wilentz Chants Democratic iv. vi. 226 The simpler, more repetitive tasks of the crimpers, fitters, and bottomers. 2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 286 The chair seats were first cut to shape... They were then carved, shaped and hollowed to give the classic saddle shape by a henchman known as a ‘bottomer’, using an adze. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking deeply or copiously quaffing1533 glut1541 carouse1559 quaff1579 all out1582 carousing1582 skolinga1599 supernaculum1622 swig1622 waughting1637 kelty1664 swigging1702 waught1721 toot1787 willie-waught1826 swiping1833 swipe1866 bottomer1876 1876 R. D. Blackmore Cripps III. xvi. 259 He firmly restricted good feeling..to three good bumpers, and a bottomer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1721 |
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