单词 | wailer |
释义 | wailer|ˈweɪlə(r)| [f. wail v. + -er1.] One who wails; spec. a professional mourner.
1647Hexham i, A wailer or bewailer, een kermer. 1822Scott Peveril xlvii, Those dangers from which the poor blushing wailers of my sex shrink. 1851G. W. Curtis Nile Notes xii. 54 Before us a funeral procession was moving to the tombs, and the shrill melancholy cry of the wailers rang fitfully. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile xix. 524 A funeral with a train of wailers goes out presently towards the burial-ground. 191519th Cent. Nov. 1147 These ‘howls’ have been practised from childhood; they are led in chorus by a professional ‘wailer’. Hence † ˈwaileress, a female wailer.
1388Wyclif Jer. ix. 17 Clepe ȝe wymmen that weilen [v.r. weileressis]. |

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