wallowern.
/ˈwɒləʊə/, U.S. /ˈwɑləwər/ 1. A person or animal that wallows.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > dirtiness or soiling with specific kinds of dirt > [noun] > muddiness > wallowing in mud > person or animal
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Veautreur, a wallower, or tumbler in the mire.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxviii. 266 What miry wallowers the generality of men of our class are in themselves.
1767 T. Nevile Imit. Juvenal xiii. 154 Lust's Votaries who live and die, Eternal Wall'wers in Circean sty.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. xii. 287 Ye porkers of Liege! ye wallowers in the mud of the Maes!
1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd ii. 112 I knew that the Worm was Fafnir, the Wallower on the Gold.
1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 15 He knew..what raised This wallower in old slime to noblest heights.
2. Mechanics. A trundle, lantern-wheel. Also wallower-wheel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > cog or gear > lantern
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trundle1611
trundle-head1611
lantern1659
lantern-wheel1787
trundle-wheel1800
lantern-pinion1881
1548 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 493 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 5567) XXVII. 1 Paid to Smaley for a newe waloer, iiijd.
1735 Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 404 By enlarging or diminishing the fix'd Wallower, you obtain a Stroke of any required Height.
1773 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. (ed. 3) 284 Wallower, a trundle upon a horizontal axis.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 97 The vertical shaft FE carries the two equal wallower-wheels E and F.
1866 C. W. Hatfield Hist. Notices Doncaster I. 203 The usual face wheel..gears into a main pinion or ‘wallower’.
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