单词 | teemer |
释义 | † teemern.1 Obsolete. A person who or thing which produces, or is able to produce, offspring. Cf. teem v.1 1, 2. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > childbirth or delivery > one who gives birth childbearera1382 teemer1637 1637 N. Whiting Le Hore di Recreatione 83 But ere that time the teemers did decree, What answer to return the shreeving men. 1646 H. Peake Medit. upon Seige 69 No wings are swifter then the wings of hope... But such hastie teemers many times bring forth blind whelpes. 1725 J. Maubray Midwifery Brought to Perfection 44 Those, who will charitably make it their Study to assist the Fair Teemers, in the Hour of their Sorrow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2021). teemern.2 In later use English regional (northern) and technical. Now historical. A person who unloads or empties something from a wagon, cart, or other container. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] > of loads > unloading > one who unloader1611 teemer1697 1697 in Duke of Buckingham Poems Affairs of State 115 Weeping to see their Sons Degenerate: His Romans taking up the Teemers Trade, The Britains Jigging it in Masquerade. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 204 Teamer, the man who empties the grain from a laden cart to the stack. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Teemer, the man at a coal shipping staith who lets the coal out of the waggons. 1900 Newcastle Daily Chron. 22 Mar. A teamer, named John Grierson, 29, of Monkwearmouth, was killed instantaneously whilst working at the Lambton drops. 1954 Civilisations 4 462 They are mainly employed as casters, teemers.., handlers and general labourers. 2010 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 16 Nov. a16 Gangs of men, known as teemers, would open the trapdoors to release the coal into hoppers below. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11637n.21697 |
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