单词 | wadder |
释义 | waddern.1ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > equipment for use with firearms > [noun] > wad > wadder wadder1579 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 115 I mighte here adioyne sundrye Tables..what Bullets, Wadders, Rammers, Ladles,..were conueniente to bee hadde in readinesse. 2. One who lays up (the cut haulm of beans, etc.) in bundles or ‘wads’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > bundle of hay or straw > wadder or trusser wadder1763 trusser1889 1763 Museum Rusticum (ed. 2) I. 236 This..lays the beans in regular rows, and saves the expense of a wadder. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2018). † waddern.2 Surveying. Obsolete. One who is engaged in determining a ‘wad’ or line of direction. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveyor > using specific methods wadder1610 traverse man1888 triangulator1891 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. iv. 53 If out of sight..place two Assistants, the one at the marke, and the other at the eminentest Medium, and then your selfe standing at..the station giuen, and the first Assistant erecting some visible obiect, waft the Wadders into the Wadd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.11579n.21610 |
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