trunk-makern.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtrunk-ˌmaker.

One whose business is the making of trunks (trunk n. 7); often with allusion to the use of the sheets of unsaleable books for trunk-linings.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > makers of other containers or receptacles

cofferer1401

pail maker1559

trugger1566

trunk-maker1701

corver1708

swiller1859

urn-maker?1881

vase-maker1893

1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 83 The True-born English Man had died silently among the Grocers and Trunk-makers, if the Libeller had not helped off the Poet.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §38 530 The Trunk~maker, who pretended to be the right Heir Male of the noble Family of the Piercies.

1764 G. Williams in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) I. 321 I hear he has been a pamphleteer, though as yet only to the benefit of the trunk~maker and pastrycook.

1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific xiv. 211 The hitting of the stick is so very rapid, that it resembles nothing that I know of more accurately than a trunk-maker driving in his nails.

1890 Globe 1 July 7/2 ‘All round St. Paul's, not forgetting the trunkmaker's daughter’. By the trunkmaker was understood, in the latter part of the last and the former part of the present century, the depository for unsaleable books.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	trunk-maker
释义	trunk-makern. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtrunk-ˌmaker. One whose business is the making of trunks (trunk n. 7); often with allusion to the use of the sheets of unsaleable books for trunk-linings. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > makers of other containers or receptacles cofferer1401 pail maker1559 trugger1566 trunk-maker1701 corver1708 swiller1859 urn-maker?1881 vase-maker1893 1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 83 The True-born English Man had died silently among the Grocers and Trunk-makers, if the Libeller had not helped off the Poet. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §38 530 The Trunk~maker, who pretended to be the right Heir Male of the noble Family of the Piercies. 1764 G. Williams in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) I. 321 I hear he has been a pamphleteer, though as yet only to the benefit of the trunk~maker and pastrycook. 1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific xiv. 211 The hitting of the stick is so very rapid, that it resembles nothing that I know of more accurately than a trunk-maker driving in his nails. 1890 Globe 1 July 7/2 ‘All round St. Paul's, not forgetting the trunkmaker's daughter’. By the trunkmaker was understood, in the latter part of the last and the former part of the present century, the depository for unsaleable books. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1701
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