| 单词 | groover |
| 释义 | groover|ˈgruːvə(r)|
Also 7 grover, 8 groaver, 9 grovier, gruver, gruffer.
[f. groove v. + -er1. Cf. Du. groever ‘cælator, sculptor’ (Kilian).]
One who or that which grooves.
1. A miner. Now dial.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 581 A fire begunne by a candle..through the negligence of a grouer or digger. 1653E. Manlove Lead Mines 119 To order grovers, make them pay their part, Joyn with their fellows, or their grove desert. 1693G. Pooley in Phil. Trans. XVII. 673 As to the finding out the Calamine,..the Groovers tell me there is no certainty at all, but that it is a meer Lottery. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2) s.v. Matlock, The only inhabitants are a few groavers, who dig for lead-ore. 1797,1873[see groove n.1 1]. 1824J. Mander Derbysh. Miners' Gloss. s.v. Grove, In Mendip, they call the Miner, a Grovier. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Grover, a miner who works in an adit level or a lead mine.
2. A tool for making grooves: a gouge. rare.
1865Lubbock Preh. Times 401 In the South the men have bows and arrows, harpoons,..snow-shovels, groovers [etc.].
3. Comb.: groover-head, an appliance for making grooves, attached to a wood-planing machine.
1884in Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1892Mod. Mechanism (ed. Benjamin) 387 A very desirable addition to grooving-machines is the solid expansion groover-head..which is arranged so that without removing or changing the cutters they will extend to double their width. |
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