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Definition of Hemmers
1. hemmer [n] - See also: hemmer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemmers
Literary usage of Hemmers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wages and Regularity of Employment in the Dress and Waist Industry of New by Nahum Isaac Stone (1915)
"CLOSERS AND hemmers. The operation of closing consists in sewing together the
front and back parts of the waist, forming the seam on each side of the waist. ..."
2. Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1852)
"... is zealously engaged in visiting the people, and supplying them with books
and bibles. From Jever br. hemmers accompanied me to ... hemmers to Bremen ..."
3. Pacific States Reports by California Supreme Court, Idaho Supreme Court, Kansas Supreme Court, Montana Supreme Court, Nevada Supreme Court, Oregon Supreme Court, Utah Supreme Court, Washington (State). Supreme Court (1912)
"Received all goods, except hemmers and tuckers. ... hemmers and tuckers not
furnished. (7) What was the value of any supplies provided for in the contract ..."
4. Southern Literary Messenger (1859)
"Extra charge of $5 for hemmers. This Machine sews from two spools, as purchased
from I|K More, requiring no re-winding of thread- It heme, lolls, ..."
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