| 单词 | watchmaker |
| 释义 | ˈwatchmaker
1. One whose trade it is to make watches.
1630Capt. J. Smith True Trav. 35 Gold-smiths..and Watch-makers. a1672Wilkins Disc. New Planet ii. (1684) 152 We allow every Watch-maker so much wisdom, as not to put any Motion in his Instrument, which is superfluous. 1710Berkeley Princ. Hum. Knowl. i. §62 Those Actions of the Watchmaker, whereby he makes the Movements and rightly adjusts them. 1758Johnson Idler No. 26 ⁋8 My first mistress was wife of a working watch-maker. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 261 Geneva... We have been a full fortnight in this paradise of watchmakers.
b. attrib. uses of possessive, as watch-maker's file, watchmaker's glass, watchmaker's lens, etc.; watchmaker's cramp, a form of cramp affecting watchmakers.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xii. ⁋1 Small and Fine Files (commonly called Watch-makers Files). 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2734 Watchmaker's Glass, a double convex lens set in a tubular socket, adapted to be held to the eye by the contraction of the orbital muscles. 1888Rutley Rock-Forming Min. 3 A watch-maker's lens, held in the eye. 1899Syd. Soc. Lex., Watchmaker's cramp.
2. slang. (See quot.)
1859Hotten's Slang Dict., Watchmaker, a pickpocket, or stealer of watches. |
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