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单词 table hand
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table hand n. a person who works or assists at a table in a factory, workshop, etc.; spec. (a) Australian and New Zealand (in a woolshed) one who assists in trimming and rolling the fleeces; (b) Printing a bindery assistant.
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1889 C. Booth Labour & Life People I. ii. ii. 260 Hands of ‘general utility’ (frequently combining the functions of table-hand, room-girl, and porteress), earn from 4s 6d to 8s.
1897 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 2 Dec. 58 The table hands sat in their aprons, ready to start.
1928 C. E. Cowley Classing Clip 33 The table-hands know exactly where to find the skirtings, and can thoroughly trim the fleece in the quickest time.
1955 G. Bowen Wool Away! vii. 92 A common fault is for a wool-table to be too high, which makes harder work for the table hands and the ‘fleeco’.
1972 Classif. of Occup. (Dept. Employment) III. 172/2 Bindery assistant. Performs, by hand or machine, folding, gathering, collating and/or sewing tasks in binding books, periodicals or stationery and assists bookbinders... Other titles include..Table hand.
1979 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 12 Oct. 24 (advt.) Fully experienced tablehand (SOGAT) required in our Bindery.
1989 E. Mashinini Strikes have followed Me ii. 20 I tried to make him see that if he had constantly to train new women to be machinists or table-hands there was no way we could then achieve our work quota.
2001 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 23 Feb. 11 A tablehand, of Gore, was sentenced to nine months' supervision and ordered to undertake alcohol and drug abuse treatment.
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