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Definition of Pieceners
1. piecener [n] - See also: piecener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pieceners
Literary usage of Pieceners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1891)
"One slubber and one billy were appointed to each carding machine, and generally
four pieceners. It was in this branch of the work that complaints of cruelty ..."
2. The Industrial Revolution: Being the Parts Entitled Parliamentary Colbertism by William Cunningham (1908)
"The pieceners would have to stay all night then too. They used to go to sleep,
poor things 1 when they had ... The children who worked as pieceners for the ..."
3. The Modern Factory System by Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor (1891)
"The youngest age at which children are employed is never under five, some are
employed between five and six as pieceners. In the summer time I have ..."
4. The Corn Laws: A Popular History by Mary A. M. Marks (1908)
"It* little pieceners " are more often beaten with it than with either i stick
... There was a great difference- '' under some overseers, all pieceners from ..."
5. Factories and the Factory System: From Parliamentary Documents and Personal by William Cooke Taylor (1844)
"The little pieceners can only take up the ends when the carriage is within a foot
or two of the delivering roller, and they have therefore an interval of ..."
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