taker-in
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of taker-in
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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The steel teeth of the cylinder strip the fibres from the taker-in and carry them in an upward direction, the surface speed of the cylinder being over 2000 feet per minute.
From The Story of the Cotton Plant by Frederick Wilkinson
And you require such a very interesting "taker-in" to make it bearable at all.
From Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." by Jenny Wren
The wool was fed into the machine from a moving apron, locked in by a pair of rollers, and passed from the taker-in roller to the angle stripper.
From The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines by Grace Rogers Cooper
I won’t be a nurserymaid, nor a lady’s-maid, far less a lady’s companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a taker-in of plain work.
From Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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