| 单词 | hemp-dresser |
| 释义 | ˈhemp-dresser One who hackles hemp.
a1659Cleveland Times 81 No zealous Hemp-dresser yet dipp'd me in The Laver of Adoption from my Sin. 1723Lond. Gaz. No. 6171/10 Benjamin Bellamy..Hempdresser. b. pl. The name of a kind of country-dance.
1756T. Amory J. Buncle (1770) II. 25 We..had the hemp⁓dressers one night, which is, you know..the most difficult, and laborious of all the country dances. 1827in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 122, I have ‘footed it’ away in Sir Roger de Coverley, the hemp-dressers, &c. |
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