单词 | threader |
释义 | threadern. 1. One who or that which threads; spec. (a) a person employed to keep the shuttles threaded in weaving; (b) a bodkin for threading tape or ribbon through interstices in a garment or the like; see also quot. 1877; (c) an operator who feeds a machine which cuts threads on screws, etc.; (d) one who threads pile-yarn into a machine in carpet-making; (e) one who strings a number of articles together, as needles for filing or grinding, electrical fittings for dipping, clog irons for storing; also with up. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > needlework > one who threaderc1430 needlewoman1536 workwoman1591 needleworker1611 needle1617 needleman1621 c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. lviii. 204 My mooder Charitee was cordere and thredere [Fr. fillaciere]. 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Threader, a device for guiding the thread into the eye of a needle. See Needle-threader. 1881 Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 97 Screw Making:..Threader. 1908 Daily News 1 Aug. 5/1 He went, at the age of ten, into a lace mill, where he advanced from the position of a ‘jacker off’ to that of a ‘thredder’. 1911 Daily News 3 May 8 Inspecting automatic threaders and inquiring into their adaptability. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §§ 118, 200, 279, 399, 949. 2. Cinematography. The end of a roll of film, threaded into the pick-up spool. ΚΠ 1917 C. N. Bennett Guide Kinematogr. i. 17 The film end, otherwise known as leader, tag, or threader. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1430 |
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