单词 | throwster |
释义 | throwstern. Now chiefly historical. 1. A person who twists silk filaments into raw silk, or who twists together two or more single threads or yarns of silk to make silk thread or yarn. Later also: a company that manufactures silk thread or yarn (or similar types of synthetic yarn) in this way. Cf. silk throwster n., thrower n. 2a.Silk throwing was originally chiefly associated with women; cf. silk-woman n.Recorded earliest in silk throwster n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > manufacture of silk thread or yarn > one who thrower1381 silk throwster1423 throwster1423 silk thrower1633 1423 in B. Thuresson Middle Eng. Occup. Terms (1950) 205 Thom. Ivy, grocer, and Anneys his wife, sylkthrowster. 1455–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1455 §55. m. 2 The silkewymmen and throwestres of the craftes and occupacion of silkewerk. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/1 Throwstar, deuideresse de soye. 1620 T. Middleton & W. Rowley World Tost sig. Cv Iob, a venerable Silke weauer, Iehu, a Throester, dwelling ith Spittle fields. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Throster, one that twisteth Silk or Thred. 1716 London Gaz. No. 5401/4 A Worsted-Throwster by Trade. 1765 in J. Swift Wks. (rev. ed.) III. 209 A woman's clack, if I have skill, Sounds somewhat like a throwster's mill. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire II. iii. iv. 96 The throwsters of the metropolis where [sic] formed into a fellowship in 1562; but they were not incorporated till 1629. 1880 C. M. Mason Forty Shires 95 English throwsters did their work as well as those of Italy. 1939 Manch. Guardian 4 Nov. 3/4 (advt.) Throwsters' Machinery, consisting of Winding, Doubling, Spinning..and Cheesing Frames. 1947 Financial Times 23 Oct. 5/3 The company carries on business as throwsters and processers of all types of silk and rayon, etc. 2017 S. Farmer Silk Industries of Medieval Paris ii. 51 The statutes for the throwsters working with large spindles named the usual variety of tasks that throwsters perform—reeling, throwing, doubling, and retwisting the yarns. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > player tavlereOE dice-player1377 dicer1408 tirler of square bones1609 caster1664 tat-monger1688 setter1726 tatsman1825 throwster1832 shooter1910 1832 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lxii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 388 A certain bold throwster had swept the pool. 1864 G. A. Sala Quite Alone II. xv. 217 It was as much as ever room could be made for the desperate throwsters who played rouleaux of golden louis. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > potter > [noun] pottera1225 crockerc1315 pot-makera1399 turner1601 pot-baker1621 pot-founder1631 cloamer1659 thrower1744 ceramist1855 throwster1894 ceramicist1930 1894 H. Speight Nidderdale & Garden of Nidd 384 (note) Throwsters and drysters were potters' craftsmen; the throwster being the man who works the wheel, and..forms by the pressure of his hand the ‘lining’ for the dish or cup. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1423 |
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