“screwer”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

screwer

释义

screwer|ˈskruːə(r)|
[f. screw v. + -er¹.]
1. One who or that which screws. Also with up.
1654R. Whitlock Zootomia 484, I am, saith he, incredibly taken with Musick and Dancing..it seemeth a Screwer up of lower Passions (more than Pins).1826Cobbett Rural Rides (1885) II. 198 A cruel screwer down of the labourers.1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 214 The locks of flax are screwed into the holders by a boy called the screwer.1842P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 342, I left the carbine in charge of Jones, a very clever ‘screwer together’.1881Greener Gun 285 The gun is sent to the screwer to have the trigger⁓plate let in and the breech pin fitted.
2. A burglar; a ‘screwsman’. Criminals' slang.
1932‘S. Wood’ Shades of Prison House p. ii, The smash-and-grab man, the afternoon screwer of poor men's houses, the whiz-man and the homosexual pervert end up—in gaol!1947[see bust n.³ d].

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