piecer

American  

[pee-ser] / ˈpi sər /

noun

1. a person whose occupation is the joining together of pieces or threads, as in textile work.

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piecer British  

/ ˈpiːsə /

noun

1. textiles a person who mends, repairs, or joins something, esp broken threads on a loom

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Etymology

Origin of piecer

First recorded in 1815–25; piece + -er ¹

Example Sentences

As Jacob Harris Harris recently noted in a piecer for Nieman Journalism Labs titled “A wave of P.R. data:”

From Forbes • Jan. 27, 2015

The following year, at the age of ten, he went to work in the cotton factory near his home, as a "piecer."

From Stories Worth Rereading by Various

He is a born teller of stories and piecer together of circumstances that fit so closely that it is difficult to see the joints.

From The Daffodil Mystery by Wallace, Edgar

At nine years of age he went to work as a "piecer" in a cotton factory.

From Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

It required three hands—a spinner, a fore side piecer, and a back boy—to keep that pair of mules in operation.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various