dead manとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dead man (plural dead men)

1. A dead man's switch.
2. (slang) A bottle of alcoholic drink that has been consumed.

   Synonym: dead soldier

3. (UK, slang, obsolete) An extra loaf stolen from a bakery by a servant who smuggles it into the customer's basket (and sometimes fraudulently charges it to the customer).
   • 1833, Francis West, Fun for winter evenings (page 27)

     A crusty loaf at your service — but master gets over-crusty, 'cause last week's bill ar'nt paid. I'm no "snatcher," altho' now and then I make "a dead man." […] We all admit the baker's skill, / To charge a dead man in his bill; […]

4. Alternative form of deadman

派生語

参照

• (stolen loaf): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

アナグラム

• amanded

名詞

deadman (plural deadmen)

1. (Can we verify this sense?) (obsolete) A corpse.

   There is no deadman to be found at Deadman's Curve.

2. (construction) A long object, often a timber or log, buried to serve as an anchor for a wall or for stays.

   The building code requires deadmen for retaining walls.

3. (rail transport, manufacturing, agriculture, safety equipment) A cutout device that operates in the event that an operator releases the control handles, leaves the operator's seat, or otherwise seems to be no longer present and alert.

   Synonym: dead man's switch

   a deadman device

   • 1962 April, “Beyond the Channel: Western Germany: The Henschel 4,000 h.p. V320 diesel”, in Modern Railways, page 274:

     [...] a Brown-Boveri deadman's control; [...].

派生語

• Deadman

アナグラム

• amanded