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noun

  • A historical term for a young male worker in a textile factory, responsible for replacing the spools of thread (bobbins) on weaving or spinning machinery.

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Quick-witted, shrewd and resilient, he survived a Dickensian adolescence that included working as a bobbin boy in a textile mill.

From Time Magazine Archive

He could be a bobbin boy in a big factory, he was told.

From Modern Americans A Biographical School Reader for the Upper Grades by Sanford, Chester Milton

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  • doffer
  • child laborer
  • mill hand
  • textile worker

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  • factory owner

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