| 单词 | weeder man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasweeder man a. Designating a person employed to clear weeds from land, a crop, etc., as weeder woman, weeder man, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1733 Pract. Husbandman & Planter I. i. 144 Let the careful Gardener set his Weeder-Women or Boys..to pick off and destroy all those Snails and Slugs. 1748 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 July (1965) I. 404 I generally rise at six, and as soon as I have breakfasted, put my selfe at the head of my Weeder Women, and work with them till nine. 1870 Sunday School Helper Feb. 48 Our Lady she spake to those weeder-men now. a1974 M. P. Alladin 12 Short Stories 28 At well over seventy years of age, he could still work as hard as any drainerman or cane cutter, or weederman or forkerman in the estate. 2001 C. Quest-Ritson Eng. Garden (2003) i. 54 Weeding was certainly women's work and weeder women were a feature of gardening until well into the nineteenth century. < as lemmas |
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