Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The man or boy who has charge of a printing-machine while it is in operation.
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Examples
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The latter-day labourer, male as well as female, was essentially a machine-minder and feeder, a servant and attendant, or an artist under direction.
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What is the value produced by a day's labour of a ploughman, a railway porter, a postman, a book-keeper, a policeman, a machine-minder?
British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals J. Ellis Barker 1909
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The latter-day labourer, male as well as female, was essentially a machine-minder and feeder, a servant and attendant, or an artist under direction.
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He was followed by a machine-minder, who hurled taunts at those who still held back.
The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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And just now as he awaited the explosion he looked for, his thoughts went back to a scene he had once had with a half drunken machine-minder whom he had had to pay off.
The Man in the Twilight Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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