drysalter
/drahy-sawl-ter/US // ˈdraɪˌsɔl tər //UK // (ˈdraɪˌsɔːltə) //
干式盐水机,干盐水,干式盐水,干洗机
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
British.
- : a dealer in dry chemicals and dyes.
Examples
He was a most respectable man—a drysalter from nine to four, and a Presbyterian in his leisure moments.
I may say that I had not during my absence from the town encountered my friend, the drysalter.
Colonel Goffe had been apprentice to a drysalter; Major-general Whalley had been apprentice to a draper.
The old drysalter had no end of nephews and nieces, and might have provided for them all.
The original of this character sketch was probably Thomas Hill, the drysalter, whom Lamb knew well.
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