stockinger

British

/ ˈstɒkɪŋə /

noun

a person who knits on a stocking frame

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An "idle stockinger" was there no very uncommon phrase, and the Degs were always classed under that head.

From International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various

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