piecer
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Noun[edit]
piecer (plural piecers)
- Someone or something that pieces.
- 2022, Giovanni Papini, Life of Christ:
- […] the arrogant Scribes, […] piecers-together of lies, belching out pus and ink.
- (historical, 19th century England) A child employed in a cotton mill or spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
- 1854, Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts:
- The piecers follow the frame in its alternate movements, catching up the broken threads, and skilfully reuniting them
- November 1898, A. S. Biggart, “A Biographical Sketch of the Great Bridge Builder”, in Cassier's Magazine:
- William Arrol had little schooling, for, at the early age of nine years, he began work as a piecer in a Johnstone cotton-mill.
- (in combination) An item, especially clothing, made up of the specified number of pieces.
- 1907, Men’s Wear, page 30:
- Outing ‘two-piecers’ that combine style and comfort in phantom-weight flannels, tropical worsteds and serges show the highest register in favoritism, and the Eiseman Bros.’ make, you know, are the universal favorites.
- 1926, Collier’s, page 10:
- Girls sit unashamed on the sand with their one-piecers pulled down almost to their waistlines to tempt the coppery tan.
- 1946, Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine, page 21:
- Jumpers of every type, smart two-piecers.
- 1971 September, Patricia Doran, “The Right Ski Wear for the Shape You Are In”, in Ski, page 80:
- Many of these one-piecers have inserts at either the shoulder blades or the middle of the back for extra stretch without bulk.
- 2005, Jack McKinney, Robert Gordon, Jack McKinney’s Tales from Saint Joseph’s Hardwood: The Hawk Will Never Die, Sports Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:
- We were relaxing on our lounge chairs when three very attractive ladies got up from their chairs and converted their two-piece bathing suits into one-piecers by removing their tops.
- 2009, PJ Piccirillo, Heartwood, Middleton Books, →ISBN, page 5:
- They assembled home-cut poles of bamboo—a two-piecer for Tobias, a three-piecer for his father.
- 2022 February 15, Nicole Phelps, “Peter Do Fall 2022 Ready-to-Wear Collection”, in Vogue[1], archived from the original on 16 February 2022:
- For evening he showed a trio of monochrome three-piecers that combined trousers, waistcoats elongated to the ankles, and double-face coats worn shrugged off the shoulders to expose bare arms and back.
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- “piecer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.