taker-in
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of taker-in
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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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 Cooper, Grace Rogers
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 Wilkinson, Frederick
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 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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 Wren, Jenny
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