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noun
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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
Andrew Carnegie starts as a bobbin boy, and becomes a millionaire; but there were many other bobbin boys.
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
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- doffer
- child laborer
- mill hand
- textile worker
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- factory owner
