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  • noun Plural form of hemmer.

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Examples

  • There are clear instructions for guides, hemmers, rufflers, binding and cording feet, sequin feet, walking feet ... and on and on.

    Toys! Wonderful toys! - A Dress A Day 2010

  • There are clear instructions for guides, hemmers, rufflers, binding and cording feet, sequin feet, walking feet ... and on and on.

    May 2010 2010

  • There are clear instructions for guides, hemmers, rufflers, binding and cording feet, sequin feet, walking feet ... and on and on.

    Toys! Wonderful toys! - A Dress A Day 2010

  • There are clear instructions for guides, hemmers, rufflers, binding and cording feet, sequin feet, walking feet ... and on and on.

    March 2010 2010

  • "We give all the children hemmers and chisels," she says in an impeccable cut-glass accent.

    Lady Allen of Hurtwood and the 1948 Children Act 2008

  • "We give all the children hemmers and chisels," she says in an impeccable cut-glass accent.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • She made a stubborn effort to exhaust the possibilities of all the little hemmers, and tried the shirrer and the fire-stitch ruffler, and obviously had a fling at the binder and a turn at the tucker.

    The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

  • The hemmers were two state cops in uniform and a hefty bird in cits with a badge on his vest, and while they weren’t actually touching her at the moment I entered, it looked as though they probably had been.

    Too Many Cooks Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1938

  • Jonesville that was a sendin 'out agents with all sorts of attachments, some with hemmers, and some with fellers. "

    Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Marietta Holley 1881

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