Definition of Brushers

1. Noun. (plural of brusher) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brushers

1. brusher [n] - See also: brusher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brushers

brush wolf
brushabilities
brushability
brushable
brushback
brushbacks
brushbar
brushbars
brushcutter
brushed
brushed aside
brushed by
brushed down
brushed up
brusher
brushers (current term)
brushes
brushes aside
brushes by
brushes down
brushes up
brushest
brusheth
brushfire
brushfires
brushier
brushiest
brushily
brushiness
brushing

Literary usage of Brushers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Economics by Richard Theodore Ely, Thomas Sewall Adams (1910)
"... roll coverers; helpers; laborers (unskilled); bale openers; picker hands or cotton shakers; lap tenders; card brushers; first and second breaker hands; ..."

2. Reports of Cases Before the High Court and Circuit Courts of Justiciary in by Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Alexander Forbes Irvine (1865)
"... As also Culpable Neglect of Duty by a Capable foreman of brushers, or any other person employed in or in connection Neglect of with a coal-pit, ..."

3. The Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1910-1922 by Leo Wolman, Paul Wander, H. K. Herwitz, Eleanor Mack, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Chicago Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Research Dept (1922)
"To illustrate:87 A firm complained of a stoppage by its brushers, who had refused to baste vents. The deputy and the firm had agreed a week before on a ..."

4. Diseases of Occupation from the Legislative, Social, and Medical Points of View by Thomas Oliver (1908)
"Among the brushers-off in Limoges there is a high death-rate from respiratory diseases and ... The atmosphere in which the brushers-off, the finishers, ..."

5. The Civil, Ecclesiastical, Literary, Commercial, and Miscellaneous History by Edward Parsons (1834)
"brushers of cloth by steam, chiefly boys, are immersed all day in dense vapour. ... The brushers often suffer distress in breathing, and are consequently ..."

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