| 单词 |
pickman |
| 释义 |
▪ I. pickman [In sense 1, f. pick n.1 + man.] 1. A labourer who works with a pick; e.g. a miner or collier who uses a pick, a hewer.
1856Househ. Words XIII. 544 Miners from Cornwall,..Muckshifters, Pickmen [etc.]. 1878Ure Dict. Arts IV. 631 (Ozokerite), Five or more gangs work at a time, each consisting of four or five men, one pickman cutting the ground, one for drawing stuff to the shaft bottom, two at the windlass. 2. A raker who rakes the hay into rows. dial.
1863Barnes Dorset Dial. Gloss. s.v. Haymeaken, In raking grass into double rollers, or pushing hay up into weals, the fore raker or pickman is said to rake in or push in, or row or roo, and the other to close. 3. = pickmaw. dial.
1899Prevost Cumberland Gloss., Pickman, the tern. ▪ II. pickman obs. form of pikeman1. |

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