| 单词 | upon tut |
| 释义 | > as lemmasupon tut a. Originally in the Cornish tin-mines, now also in Derbyshire lead-mining: in the phrase upon tut (also by the tut), and attributive as tut-bargain, tut-man, tut-work (also as vb.), tut-worker, tut-working, tut-workman: denoting a system of payment by measurement or by the piece, adopted in paying for work which brings no immediate returns, as distinct from tribute n. 3; hence, work of this character; dead-work. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > wage structures and scales > [phrase] > system of pay by the tut1778 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 180 [Under certain conditions] they set it to be sunk, driven, stoped, or cut down upon Tut; and in such case the Miners take what they term a Tut~bargain; that is, a piece or part of unmeasured ground, by the lump, for such price as can be agreed upon. 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 184 The great inconvenience that attends this Tut-work or bargains by the lump or by the fathom, is, that if the ground proves hard and chargeable in the working, the labourer has no ability to go through with it. 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) (at cited word) To do work by the tut, or tote; to undertake it by the great. West. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xxvi. 248 Tutwork..consists in sinking shafts, driving levels, and making excavations. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall xv. 567 Persons performing the work under the captains in the various parts of mines may..be divided into tributers, tutworkmen, and labourers. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 147 The tutworkers, or tutmen, can readily judge of the hardness of the ground to be excavated. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 152 Dolcoath miners,..blasting and breaking, tut~working and tributing. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 175 Details of Expenses... Tutwork Bargains. 1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) vi. 40 Shafts are sunk and levels driven, in Cornwall and elsewhere, at a fixed rate per lineal fathom... This form of bargain is called ‘tutwork’. 1906 G. R. Lewis in Victoria County Hist. Cornwall I. 568/2 The workmen..are, either tribute, tut, or daymen,..the tut worker contracting, at a certain rate for the sinking of shafts and..driving of levels. < as lemmas |
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