piecers

It's not that I was wearing reinforced one-piecers with flouncey skirts or anything like that.

Mary Bradley: Letter from the Land of the Butt 2008

There are two poor boys from Bollington, who begin life as piecers at one shilling or eighteen-pence a-week, and the father of one of whom was cut to pieces by the machinery at which he worked, but not before he had himself founded the institution in which this son has since come to be taught.

Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

Likewise, haberdasher Paul Stuart is moving three-piecers in olive gabardine, charcoal flannel pinstripes and brown tweeds.

Rules for Three-Piece Suits 2007

"No. Santa Barbara seems to be full of three-piecers, and that's not my type."

The Legend of the Slain Soldiers Muller, Marcia 1985

'I suppose you mean fettlers (people who clean the machines) and piecers (those who join the pieces of wool or yarn together when it breaks),' she explained.

Sarah's School Friend May Baldwin

This is the case with the work of children employed as piecers.

The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production 1899

The audience enjoyed it, took the points, broke in now and then with comments as the speaker touched on such burning matters as the tyranny of overlookers, the temper of masters, the rubs between the different classes of 'hands,' the behaviour of 'minders' to the 'piecers' employed by them, and so on.

The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

I find that the throttle-piecers were then receiving eight shillings a week, and they were working twelve hours a day.

Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money James Parton 1856

They earn very good wages and look healthy; but, where the wool is dyed, what with the dye and what with the oil, the piecers are all ready toileted to sing to a banjo; and sometimes, with rubbing their faces with their dirty hands, they get sore eyes.

Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

There are two poor boys from Bollington, who begin life as piecers at one shilling or eighteen-pence a-week, and the father of one of whom was cut to pieces by the machinery at which he worked, but not before he had himself founded the institution in which this son has since come to be taught.

Speeches: Literary and Social Charles Dickens 1841