| 单词 |
brewer |
| 释义 |
brewer|ˈbruːə(r)|
Also 3–7 bruer, 4 brywer, 4–5 brewere.
[f. brew v. + -er1.]
1. One who brews; spec. one whose trade is to make malt liquors. brewers' grains (see grain n.1 4 b).
a1300Wright Relig. Songs vii. 82 Theos false chepmen..Backares and brueres. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. i. 221 Bakers and brywers, bouchers and oþere. c1440Promp. Parv. 54 Browstar, or brewere, pandoxator, -trix. 1577Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) 150 Ale and beere..as it pleaseth the bruer to make them. 1592Nashe P. Penilesse 10 b, Brewers..by retayling filthy Thames water, come in few yeres to be worth fortie or fifty thousand pound. 1671in Stow's Surv. (ed. Strype 1754) II. 713/1 No street car, or Brewer's dray. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. ii. §4 You think a drunkard most beneficial to the brewer and the vintner. 1836Penny Cycl. V. 404/2 The fining or clearing, which is sometimes done by the brewer, sometimes by the publican.
2. A concocter, contriver of.
1563Homilies ii. xiv. (1640) 191 The author and brewer of sinne, and the ruler of Hell. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 96/2 James de la Hide was the onlie bruer of this rebellion. |
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