| 释义 |
piecener|ˈpiːs(ə)nə(r)|
[f. prec. + -er1.]
One who pieces or piecens; a piecer; spec., a child or young person employed in a spinning-mill to keep the frames filled with rovings, and to join together the ends of threads which break while being spun or wound; formerly, also, to join the cardings or slivers for the slubber, a work now done by machinery: see piecer 2.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 178 The cardings..are taken up by the children, called pieceners, from the nature of their work, being to piece or join those porous rolls together, to fit them for being drawn into a continuous thread. 1839F. Trollope M. Armstrong I. viii. 191 note, The children whose duty it is to walk backwards and forwards before the reels, on which the cotton, silk, or worsted is wound, for the purpose of joining the threads when they break, are called piecers, or pieceners. 1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 552/1 A child, called a ‘piecener’, takes the cardings from the carding machine... The pieceners are employed and paid by the slubber. |