trunk-maker

See also: trunkmaker

English

trunk-maker (plural trunk-makers)

A person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).
(theater, obsolete) A critic who pounds upon the benches in a show of approval.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book IV:
  This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.

单词	trunk-maker
释义	trunk-maker See also: trunkmaker English Noun trunk-maker (plural trunk-makers) A person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks). (theater, obsolete) A critic who pounds upon the benches in a show of approval. 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify \|volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book IV: This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.
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