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Definition of Pressers
1. presser [n] - See also: presser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressers
Literary usage of Pressers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Occupations in the Cloak, Suit, and Skirt Industry of Greater New by William Thomas Bawden (1914)
"piece pressers are not employed the garment goes from the operator to the under
... pressers are further divided into classes according to the garments upon ..."
2. Wages and Regularity of Employment in the Dress and Waist Industry of New by Nahum Isaac Stone (1915)
"IRONERS AND pressers. The protocol provided for different rates of wages for
ironers and pressers without defining what was meant by each. ..."
3. ... Regulation and Restriction of Output by U.S. Bureau of labor, Carroll Davidson Wright (1904)
"pressers employ no one except that several of them will occasionally join in
employing a common helper. Dish makers employ a helper at from $7.50 per week ..."
4. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work. By Virginia Penny by Virginia Penny (1863)
"Bleachers and pressers. I called in a place where I saw the pressing of bonnets and
... I have been told that Mrs. K., New York, employs women pressers. ..."
5. German Literature by Wolfgang Menzel (1840)
"Morality without beauty is not powerful enough to ward off the dissoluteness
which threatens society. THE STORMERS AND pressers. ..."
6. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences: Being Record of the Progress by William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington (1852)
"Cartwright, Warner, and Haywood's patent described two modes of depressing the
beards of the needles by pressers which are at all times between the sinkers ..."
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