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Definition of Patchers
1. patcher [n] - See also: patcher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patchers
Literary usage of Patchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Man to Man: The Story of Industrial Democracy by John Leitch (1919)
"They visited the patchers. It had been the custom of the patchers to rim out a
knot hole with a sharp knife and then fill the cavity with a special kind of ..."
2. Man to Man: The Story of Industrial Democracy by John Leitch (1919)
"They visited the patchers. It had been the custom of the patchers to rim out a
knot hole with a sharp knife and then fill the cavity with a special kind of ..."
3. Municipal and Private Operation of Public Utilities: Report to the National by National Civic Federation (1907)
"Rate of Pay Amount of Per Shift. sa 1J Foremen 7 6 3 patchers 5 7 2 Enginemen
and breakers 4 9 6 Chargers 5 9 3 Chargers' Assistants 5 3 18 Drawers 5 3 3 ..."
4. Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson (1911)
"... ie, patchers or menders. Malvolio may mean to imply that their catches are
mere patchwork, but this seems a rather needlessly recondite explanation. ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"We post- Kantians have almost lost ourselves prowling in the narrow field of
consciousness like Dutch patchers under the dikes of logic, which keep out the ..."
6. Biennial Report by Vermont Public Service Commission (1900)
"... flagmen and watchmen 233' Telegraph operators and dis- ; patchers 36 All other
employes and laborers- • 248 Total /'Including general Less General ..."
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