2. Verb. (third-person singular of slubber) ¹
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Definition of Slubbers
1. slubber [v] - See also: slubber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slubbers
Literary usage of Slubbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters to the Young on Progress in Pudsey During the Last Sixty Years by Joseph Lawson (1887)
"... door—slubbers and their business —111 usage and poor pay of ... —slubbers earn
good wages, and most oí them spend them—Condensers supersede ..."
2. Letters to the Young on Progress in Pudsey During the Last Sixty Years by Joseph Lawson (1887)
"... and more—Listen at a Burling-house door—slubbers and their business —Ill usage
and ... —slubbers earn good wages, and most of them spend them—Condensers ..."
3. Letters to the Young on Progress in Pudsey During the Last Sixty Years by Joseph Lawson (1887)
"slubbers could earn about twice as much as the hand loom weavers could, ...
Some of the slubbers behaved very badly to these young boys and girls, ..."
4. The White Slaves of England: Compiled from Official Documents. With Twelve by John C. Cobden (1853)
"I would say of the slubbers generally, that they are a morose, ill- tempered set.
... The slubbers are often off drinking, and then they must work harder to ..."
5. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1910)
"slubbers are the slowest type of speed-frame, and receive the sliver in cans ...
Intermediates receive the bobbins of yarn of the slubbers and spin it on ..."
6. A Method of Determining Costs in a Cotton Mill by Henry Wyman Nichols (1915)
"On the slubbers, two different hank rovings were run, .60 and .70, and the one
that is used in later processes for the 8 hank, ..."
7. The Philosophy of Manufactures: Or, An Exposition of the Scientific, Moral by Andrew Ure (1835)
"Mr. Gamble (the proprietor of the factory) is one of the most humane men that
ever lived, by all that I hear, and he will not allow the slubbers to touch ..."
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