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Definition of Brushers
1. brusher [n] - See also: brusher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brushers
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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