Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which pieces or patches; a boy or girl employed in a spinning-factory to join broken threads.
Wiktionary
- n. One who pieces; a patcher.
- n. A child employed in a spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who pieces; a patcher.
- n. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
Etymologies
- piece + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At nine years of age he went to work as a "piecer" in a cotton factory.”
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“At the age of ten I was put into the factory as a “piecer”, to aid by my earnings in lessening her anxiety.”
“At the age of ten, Livingstone was sent to work in a cotton factory near Glasgow as a "piecer.”
“The following year, at the age of ten, he went to work in the cotton factory near his home, as a "piecer.”
“A "little piecer" in a Lancashire mill may get wages more than sufficient for his keep, while many a farm boy or errand boy could not keep himself in food out of the earnings he brings home.”
The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production
“His parents were poor, and at the age of ten he was put to work in the factory as a piecer, that his earnings might aid his mother in the struggle with the wolf which had followed the family from the island that bore its name.”
“After serving a number of years as a piecer, he was promoted to be a spinner.”
“At the age of ten Livingstone was sent to work in a cotton factory near Glasgow as a "piecer.”
“His uncles all entered His Majesty's service either as soldiers or sailors, but his father remained at home, and his mother, being a thrifty housewife, in order to make the two ends meet, sent her son David, at the age of ten, to the factory as a piecer.”
Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley
“He went to sea, he states, when he was hardly more than ten years of age, having up to that time been employed as a piecer in a cotton factory in his native town; and after that he appears to have been but little in England, or even on shore, for many years.”
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