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pewterer

/pyoo-ter-er/US // ˈpyu tər ər //

浇铸者,浇注者,酿酒师,浇注器

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a maker of pewter utensils or containers.

Examples

  • Thence to Tom's about business, and so to the pewterer's, to buy a poore's-box to put my forfeits in, upon breach of my late vows.

  • The matchless spoon bears the sole surviving "touch" or mark of an American pewterer of the seventeenth century.

  • The mark on the handle is the sole surviving one of an American pewterer of the seventeenth century.

  • On their father's death the eldest succeeded to the property, and the younger, Henry, carried on the trade of pewterer in Helston.

  • How little had he imagined that the Walpole's soul was not, by five shillings, as large as the Bristol pewterer's!