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

At the age of ten, Livingstone was sent to work in a cotton factory near Glasgow as a "piecer."

From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Calhoon, Major A.R.

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

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

The wage paid to the big piecer in England, Dr Hasbach goes on to show, is not much greater than that received by a good assistant in Germany.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various