单词 | tawer |
释义 | tawern.1 One who taws; one who prepares white leather; = whittawer n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with skins or hides > [noun] > worker with leather > tanner > types of whittawera1200 tawerc1384 tewerc1440 chrome handler1921 1311 Letter Bk. D. Lond. lf. 127 Walterus le Whitawyer. 1346 Letter Bk. F. Lond. lf. 126 b Les bones gentz Megucers appellez Whittawyers.] c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds ix. 43 Many dayes he dwellide in Joppe, at Symound, sum coriour, or tawier [a1425 Corpus Oxf. tawer, a1425 New Coll. Oxf. tawiere]. 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 121 And to Joh'n Massy tawyer for tawing of a tymbre of hole sables iiij s. 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 505 Payd to the toyar for iiij. boke skynnys. 1559 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 208 A tawhear of skynnes. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiv/1 A Tawer, alutarius. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 216 The skinnes of this beast are dressed by Tawyers, with the fat of fishes and Alum. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 237 There live the Tanners, Tawyers, Fell-mongers, Parchment and Vellum-dressers. 1795 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIV. 552 There are 17 tanners, 18 curriers, and 13 tawers. 1883 Cent. Mag. 27 75 In this part of Paris live all tanners and tawers and their kindred. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tawern.2 One who aims a taw. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > player tawer1898 shooter1910 1898 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games II. 113 If one player knocks out a marble, he is entitled to ‘taw’ at the rest in the ring until he misses; and if a sure ‘tawer’ not one of the others may have the chance to taw. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < |
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