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Definition of Sorters
1. sorter [n] - See also: sorter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorters
Literary usage of Sorters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parliamentary Debates: Senate and House of Representatives by Australia Parliament (1911)
"At the same time, however, the position of despatching officer has been abolished,
these men being made senior sorters. As despatching officers was a ..."
2. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"Women sorters. MR. WARDLE (Stockport) : I beg to ask the Postmaster-General if the
... There are no women sorters employed in the Circulation Office. ..."
3. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"WOOL-sorters' DISEASE 40. This disease, which frequently attacks wool sorters
... Wool-sorters' disease seems to originate in the dust of certain infected ..."
4. The Hygiene, Diseases and Mortality of Occupations by John Thomas Arlidge (1892)
"Those consequences are expressed by the term ' wool-sorters' disease. ... To the
ordinary symptoms common among sorters of wool were added, ..."
5. The Hygiene, Diseases and Mortality of Occupations by John Thomas Arlidge (1892)
"Those consequences are expressed by the term ' wool-sorters' disease. ... To the
ordinary symptoms common among sorters of wool were added, ..."
6. The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance by James Wilson Hyde (1889)
"POST-OFFICE sorters, unlike men who follow other avocations, ... This may possibly
be due to two causes — that sorters are comparatively a modern ..."
7. Essentials of Diagnosis: Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers by Solomon Solis-Cohen, Augustus Adolph Eshner (1892)
"Anthrax—Wool-sorters' Disease. What are the clinical features of anthrax? ...
It develops in butchers, wool-sorters, workers in hides, stevedores and others ..."
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