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baller|ˈbɔːlə(r)|
[f. ball v.1 and n.2 + -er1.]
1. One who forms anything into balls. Also spec. a workman who charges puddled bars into a balling or reheating furnace.
1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 461 If china is to be made, the baller, previously to forming the clay into a ball, breaks it in two. 1865E. Meteyard Wedgwood I. 232 The weighing of clay at the baller's scales. 1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 104 Baller (Tin Plate).
†2. One who takes part in a ball for dancing.
1668Pepys Diary 30 May, Here I first understood..the meaning of the Company that lately were called ‘Ballers.’
3. a. One who makes yarn, etc., into balls; one who attends to a balling machine. b. A balling machine.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 104 Baller (Carpet). 1884McLaren Spinning 216 The balling head and creel motion ranks along with Blamire's as the best... The sliver before going into the baller can be drawn off the doffer in two ways. Ibid. 220 This is a side-drawing system, and, on our former supposition of speeds, would have the same number of doublings per sliver as in the baller. |