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单词 yearsman
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yearsmann.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: year n., man n.1
Etymology: < the genitive of year n. + man n.1 Compare earlier year man n. N.E.D. (1921) gives the pronunciation as (yīə·ɹzmæ̆n) /ˈjɪəzmən/.
Obsolete. rare.
A labourer hired or paid by the year.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to conditions > [noun] > hireling > hired by the week or year
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1834 Rep. Commissioners Poor Laws: App. (B.1) i. 495a in Parl. Papers (H.C. 44) XXX. 1 14s. for carters and yearsmen.
1891 Daily News 12 Sept. 3/6 The articles..are very instructing to us in East Sussex, as they show how much better off farm labourers are here than in the Eastern Counties. Our labourers are divided into two classes: the day labourer and the yearsman.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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