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单词 weigher-in
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weigher-in
a. A person who is employed to weigh commodities; an official appointed to weigh or to supervise weighing, to test weights, etc. Also weigher-in.
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14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 618/3 Trutinator, a weyere.
1463 Cases bef. King's Council (Selden Soc.) 111 Brouwurs weyers porters tresourers clerkys [etc.] of the Staple.
1476 in C. L. Kingsford Stonor Lett. & Papers (1919) II. 5 And whan I haue weyyde heme to..pay..to the weyor ffor euery sake j d.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f.xxviiiv Where before tyme ye Weyer vsyd to lene his draught towarde the Marchaundyse, soo that the byar hadde by that meane .x. or .xii. li. in a Draughte to his aduauntage.
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 14 (§1) The waier of the Wolles within the said Porte.
1677 W. Badcock Touch-stone Gold & Silver Wares 20 Their Assay-Office,..wherein is a Sworn Weigher.
1701 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 79 Mr. Fitch, cheif weigher of the gold and silver at the Mint.
1794 Gen. View Agric. Essex (Messrs. Griggs) 26 Two men are nominated..whom we call public weighers, whose business it is to..examine the weights of all millers and shopkeepers.
1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs i. 11 At landing the Goods, the Weigher is to call out the full and true gross weight in the scale.
1855 H. G. Dalton Hist. Brit. Guiana II. 568 Licensed Weighers or Gaugers.
1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad ii. 9 The crowd mash one another to pulp in the effort to get the weighers' attention to their trunks.
1886 Act 49 & 50 Vict. c. 49 §16 The Admiralty may appoint..persons to be meters and weighers at and within the harbour.
1906 A. H. Lewis Confess. Detective i. i. 7 I've been weigher-in at the boxing tournaments for over ten years.
1928 Daily Tel. 25 Sept. 12/5 It is a rule that every fish caught must be kept alive, and after being weighed must be put back into the water by the official weigher-in.
1982 J. A. Sharwood in Occas. Papers Univ. Sydney Austral. Lang. Res. Centre No. 20. He may be inclined to complain to the boundary rider..about the bloke with the short arm being employed as the weigher-in there.
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