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名詞

head beetler (複数形 head beetlers)

1. (archaic, Britain, dialect) The leader of a group of workmen.
   • 1920, Seumas MacManus, Top o' the Mornin' (page 161)

     The line of flunkies, like a rijiment of tin men workin' on strings, all together threw up their hands in horror, a look on their face like someone stole their last penny, and the head beetler of them, bowin' till his three ends met, said, […]

   • 2016, Patrick Deeley, The Hurley Maker's Son

     Later Mattie, the 'head beetler' of my father's family, arrived wearing his customary tweed jacket.

参照

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary: "the bully of the workshop, who lords it over his fellow-workmen by reason of superior strength, skill in fighting, etc. Sometimes applied to the foreman."