单词 | night-work |
释义 | ˈnight-work, n. [f. night n. + work n. Cf. OE. nihtweorc (Beowulf 827).] Work done, or which one has to do, during the night.
1594Plat Jewell-Ho. 67 To put some in minde of their grosse night-woorkes. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. v. v, I marle what piece of night-work you have in hand now. 1679C. Nesse Antichrist 201 A work of darkness, moon or night-work. 1835Ure Phil. Manuf. 374 One ingenious physician, when asked about the effects of night-work on factory children, condemned it. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 529 Among the duties of the soldier is some amount of night-work. So † ˈnight-work v.; ˈnight-worker.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. viii. 118 And for their Land⁓ladies, to Night-worke them into silence. 1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I 91 That the smell of gain was fragrant even to night-workers. |

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