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hosier

/hoh-zher/US // ˈhoʊ ʒər //UK // (ˈhəʊzɪə) //

搬运工,搬运工人,搬运车

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who makes or deals in hose or stockings or goods knitted or woven like hose.

Examples

  • Then came a hosier and a bootmaker and a hatter; nay, I was forgetting a jeweller from Temple Bar.

  • Poor Vondel kept a hosier's shop, which he left to the care of his wife, while he indulged his poetical genius.

  • Leonard now shone forth in all the glory which the united powers of tailor, hatter, and hosier, could spread around lug person.

  • When they came opposite to a hosier's shop, in Oxford-street, the stranger thanked him, and desired to be set down.

  • In the front of the frame, immediately opposite to where the hosier sits, are placed the needles which form the loops.