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Definition of Strippers
1. stripper [n] - See also: stripper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strippers
Literary usage of Strippers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny (1863)
"Their tobacco strippers are paid fifty cents one hundred pounds. ... strippers can
earn from $1.50 to $3.50, and are mostly old widow women with children. ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Burdens on Small Shoulders — What a Child of Eight Can Do — Feather strippers —
Paper Collar Makers — Tobacco strippers — Youth and Old Age Side by Side ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... Can Do — Feather strippers — Paper Collar Makers — Tobacco strippers — Youth
and Old Age Side by Side — Cigar-Makers—Deadly Trades — Working in Cellars— ..."
4. The Employments of Women: A Cyclopaedia of Woman's Work. By Virginia Penny by Virginia Penny (1863)
"Their tobacco strippers are paid fifty cents one hundred pounds. ... strippers can
earn from $1.50 to $3.50, and are mostly old widow women with children. ..."
5. Linseed Oil and Other Seed Oils: An Industrial Manual by William Duane Ennis (1909)
"Mechanical strippers. —The press gang.—Trimming.—General analysis.—The French
trimmer.—Details of construction.—Disposition of trimmings. ..."
6. Darkness and Daylight, Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1900)
"... of Eight Can Do — Feather strippers — Paper Collar Makers — Tobacco strippers —
Youth and Old Age Side by Side — Cigar-Makers—Deadly Trades — Working in ..."
7. Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing in the United States of America by Thomas William Uttley (1905)
"A large corporation—Power from the Merrimack— Hours and holidays—strippers as
can tenters- Rates and productions on fly frames—Doffers and back-boys instead ..."
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