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单词 bottomer
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bottomern.

Brit. /ˈbɒtəmə/, U.S. /ˈbɑdəmər/
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bottom n., -er suffix1; bottom v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: Probably partly < bottom n. + -er suffix1, and partly (in later use) < bottom v. + -er suffix1.
1. Coal Mining. A person who works at the pit bottom. Cf. pit-bottomer n. at pit n.1 Compounds 2 Now chiefly historical.
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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.
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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.
3. A draught in which the cup is drained to the bottom. Obsolete. rare.
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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).
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