单词 | unloader |
释义 | unloadern. 1. A person who unloads something, esp. one employed to do so. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > [noun] > of loads > unloading > one who unloader1611 teemer1697 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Scarcatore, a discharger, an vnloder. 1731 ‘A. Scriblerus’ Gorgoneicon 17 Must the Gentlemen and Free-holders of South-Britain be nothing but Loaders and Unloaders of the Packs and Budgets of the North-British Slaves and Scoundrels? 1770 A. Young Farmer's Guide II. i. xxvi. 273 Carting 8000 loads of earth to farm-yard, 30 carts, and 20 drivers and unloaders, 300 loads per day. 1839 London Disp. 30 June 8/2 Thomas Clifford, an unloader of barges, living at Battersea. 1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 24 As in the case of unloaders of grain-ships. 1930 Classified Index Occupations Fifteenth Census (U.S. Bureau of Census) 39/2 (table) Unloader, log or wood camp. 2012 A. Berhanu Rural-urban Nexus in Migration iv. 35 Cobblestone workers, sex workers, factory workers, construction workers and loaders/unloaders. 2. That which unloads or discharges something; spec. a piece of equipment or machinery which unloads cargo or freight from a ship, train, etc. ΚΠ 1650 tr. J.-F. Senault Christian Man 107 The Nose is..the unloader of the Brain, and the ornament of the Face. 1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams 481/2 Vulcan; the god of fire, for fire itself: from whom those tremendous, but salutary unloaders of nature, the vulcanoes. 1837 Mechanics' Mag. 6 May 68/1 (heading) Wagon unloader. 1880 J. W. Hill Illustr. Guide Agric. Implem. 469 This Machine is an efficient Sack Lifter, Loader, Unloader, and Shooter. 1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 370/1 The huge Hulett unloaders, which pick tons of ore from the holds of the Great Lakes ore steamers. 1988 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 15 June a18 The ship, built in 1960, does not have an automatic unloader, like more modern vessels. 2011 Southland Times (N.Z.) (Nexis) 30 Aug. 1 Setting up the new unloader at the Tiwai wharf will take about a month. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1611 |
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