Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who manufactures paper or who works at paper-making.
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Examples
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“Still, that old slyboots of a paper-maker must not overreach us; it is time to ask him for something besides promises.”
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We sell our wares to the book-purveyor, between whom and us there is no greater obligation than between him and his paper-maker or printer.
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They surely would not like to hear that we were unable to pay the printer, bookbinder, clerks, paper-maker, etc.
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His father was a paper-maker, and both he and his brother Sealey (born 1747, and married Harriett, daughter of James Pownall, of Wilmslow) gave up their time almost entirely to the invention of paper machinery.
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To make the book beautiful should be the united aim of all who are concerned in its manufacture -- the paper-maker, the printer, and the book-binder.
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Hamilton, Ohio, a large paper-maker, visited St. Louis on business that called for legal assistance, and I was employed by him.
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The deckle edge is left uncut, just as it comes from the paper-maker.
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My father was a paper-maker, and lived all his lifetime in the town.
A Soldier's Life Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle
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He followed for some time the business of a paper-maker, but gave attention to the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841, and practiced in Greenville.
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The old woman was sitting up in her wretched bed, winding worsted; four meager, ill-clothed, pale children were all busy, some of them sticking pins in paper for the pin-maker, and others sorting rags for the paper-maker.
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