watch-birth

名詞

廃用

(obsolete) A midwife.

日本語の意味

古語における「助産婦」を意味する。

When the labor stalled, the watch-birth hurried in with warm towels and steady hands.

陣痛が停滞したとき、助産師は温かいタオルと落ち着いた手つきで急いで駆けつけた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A midwife.

This Pattern pleas'd thee ſo, th' haſt fram'd by it,

Th' eternall Watch-births of thy ſacred Wit:

Thy pithy Book of Proverbs richly-grave,

Unto the PORCH may rich relation have:

For that it gives us Oeconomike Lawes,

Rules Politike, and Private civill Sawes;

And for (the moſt) thoſe Leſſons generall

At Humane matters ayme the moſt of all.

watch-births

（ plural ）