| 单词 |
lamper |
| 释义 |
▪ I. lamper, n. U.S. colloq.|ˈlæmpə(r)|
[f. lamp n.1 + -er1.]
(See quot.)
1886Pall Mall G. 23 Sept. 12/1 In Philadelphia, women make a good living as professional ‘lampers’. They contract to call each day, and trim and keep in perfect order the lamps of the household.
Restrict U.S. colloq. to sense in Dict. Add: 2. One who engages in lamping (sense *2).
1985BBC Wildlife July 326/2 The lampers had split up, though still within contact distance (working two men and a dog to a beam)... A lamper well to my rear caught her [sc. a vixen] in his light. 1991Working Terrier Feb. 4/2 The Mansfield & Ashfield Recorder..printed a front page editorial..which again carried a police officer being quoted as saying ‘diggers and lampers should not be approached as they are just as likely to hit you over the head with a spade as hit an animal’.
▪ II. lamper, v. dial.|ˈlæmpə(r)|
[? freq. of lamp v.2; see -er5.]
intr. (See quot. 1895.)
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Hart, Now there are three ways to know when a Hart is spent. 1. He will run stiff, high and lampering. 1895E. Angl. Gloss., To lamper along, to take big strides. |
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