Lexicographical Neighbors of Piecening
Literary usage of Piecening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth by Charlotte Elizabeth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lewis Hippolytus Joseph Tonna (1845)
"The joining, or piecening, is easy enough when you get used to it." "And what is
scavenging?" " Oh, that made me laugh. You see, bits of cotton wool will ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1837)
"I have stopped and looked at them for two minutes, going through the motions of
piecening fast asleep, when there was really no work to do, and they were ..."
3. Landmarks in English Industrial History by George Townsend Warner (1899)
"I have stood and looked at them for two minutes going through the operation of
piecening fast asleep." Punishment, such as strapping, or, in worse cases, ..."
4. History of the Middle and Working Classes: With a Popular Exposition of the by John Wade (1834)
"Oil, or grease, applied to the skin, is preservative; as experienced in slubbing,
carding, and piecening, in the woollen manufacture. ..."
5. The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool, and Other Fibrous Substances by Clinton G. Gilroy (1845)
"With the covers has been also introduced a new method of piecening or joining on
any end, which may have been run down, namely, by splicing it to the ..."
6. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1847)
"With the covers has been also introduced a new method of piecening or joining on
any end, which may have been run down, namely, by splicing it to the ..."
7. The Effects of the Principal Arts, Trades, and Professions, and of Civic by Charles Turner Thackrah (1832)
"We refer to several branches of the woollen manufacture, as slubbing, carding,
and the children's employment of " piecening." Pages 33 & 125. III. ..."
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