| 单词 | trapper-boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmastrapper-boy 2. A boy stationed to open and shut a trapdoor for the passage of trams in a coal-mine. Also trapper-boy, trapper-lad. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc. coal putter1708 foal1770 onsetter1789 putter1812 headsman1813 trapper1815 thruster1825 trammer1839 train boy1852 tram1856 hanger-on1858 tipper1861 hooker-on?1881 jiggerer?1881 hitcher1890 tub-loader1891 haulier1892 tilter1892 unhooker1892 flatter1894 jagger1900 thrutcher1901 tram-boy1904 filler1921 1815 Ann. Philos. 6 114 The trappers have seats near their doors, and remain by them all the time the pit is at work. 1845 C. Norton Child of Islands 22 So lives the little Trapper underground: No glittering sunshine streaks the oosy wall. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Aug. 1/3 Mrs. Keir Hardie..began life as a trapper boy in a mine. 1900 Daily News 14 Feb. 3/2 Here and there [i.e. in a coal-mine]..are placed the ventilating doorways, or traps. At each of these sits the little trapper lad alone in the silent gloom. < as lemmas |
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