“thwacker”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

thwacker

释义

thwacker rare.|ˈθwækə(r)|
[f. prec. + -er¹.]
1. One who or that which thwacks; a beater; spec. an implement for beating half-dried pantiles into shape on the thwacking-frame.
1867Ure Dict. Arts, etc. III. 902 When half-dry the tiles are taken out one by one, placed on the thwacking frame, and beaten with the thwacker to produce the required shape.1877Knight Dict. Mech., Thwacking-frame, the tool by which the upper side [of half-dried pantiles] is beaten has the shape of the segment of a cylinder, and is called the thwacker.1879G. Meredith Egoist Prelude, Like cudgels of carpet-thwackers expelling dust.
†2. A thumper, a whacker; in quot., a ‘thumping’ lie. Obs. rare^—1.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 108 It would follow, that our leasting were greater than somewhat else, or greater than it self; Which would be a thwacker.

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