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presser|ˈprɛsə(r)|
Also 6 -or.
[Partly f. press v.1 + -er1; partly from pressour, with change of suffix.]
1. One who presses. Applied to workmen in various trades, often with specification, as cloth-presser, cotton-presser, hat-presser, stocking-presser, tailor's presser, trouser-presser, etc.
a. One who is employed to press cloth, felt, etc. into shape in tailoring, hat-making, etc. Also, one who presses wool into bales.
1549Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI, c. 2 §10 Clothworkers Dyers and Pressors howses shoppes and other places. 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. Wks. 1755 V. ii. 95, I am not richer..with the sale of all the several stuffs I have contrived: for, I give the whole profit to the dyers and pressers. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Pressers, men engaged in pressing the seams of garments with heated irons. 1902Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Feb. 380/1 Blockers, including ‘pressers’ [hat-manufacture]. 1911W. H. Koebel In Maoriland Bush viii. 122 The ‘presser’ climbs inside the high, square, wooden structure that rises in the centre of the floor, in readiness to receive the fleeces. 1955G. Bowen Wool Away! vii. 95 Pressing wool is a simple straightforward job, but good pressers work without waste movement and without getting in each other's way. 1965J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 9 Presser, a skilled man who presses the wool into bales so that they are not ‘light on’ (short in weight).
b. One who works a press of any kind; † a printer; a wine-presser (obs.).
1545Elyot Dict., Torcularius, a presser. 1573–80Baret Alv. P 688 A presser, or he that presseth, torcularius. 1614Monstr. Serp. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 228 Pamphleting pressers. 1641T. Herbert Repl. Defence Oxford Petition 4 It is not fit the Presser should the Vine Cut downe.
c. Pottery. A workman who makes plates or hollow-ware by pressing the prepared clay into plaster-of-Paris moulds. Distinguished into flat pressers, who make plates; hollow-ware pressers, who make cups, basins, vases, and the like; and ornamental pressers, who make ornamental porcelain, relief work, etc. Also in Glass-making.
1770A. Young Tour N. Eng. (1771) III. xx. 255, I had the pleasure of viewing the Staffordshire potteries at Burslem... Modellers,..Pressers,..Painters,..Moulders in plaister of Paris. 1898Binns Story of Potter iv. i. 202 The hollow-ware presser uses a whirler, but not a jigger, and does all his work by hand... The clay is beaten out into suitable bats, and these are pressed and beaten into the mould until every crevice is properly filled. 1962Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 45 Presser, a worker who shapes glass by pressing in a mould by hand or by machine.
2. One who urges or strongly inculcates.
1643J. White 1st Cent. Scand. Malignant Priests 35 A great practiser and presser of the late illegall Innovations. a1658J. Durham Exp. Rev. ii. iii. (1680) 122 That learned author is an eminent batterer down of presumption and a presser of holinesse.
3. a. An instrument, machine, or part of a machine which applies pressure. Often with specification, as brawn-presser, drill-presser, etc.
Among other things, applied to a form of ironing-machine; the presser-bar of a knitting-machine, which drives the barb of the needle into the groove of the shank; the foot-piece or presser-foot in a sewing-machine which rests upon the cloth to hold it steady; the presser-roller of a drawing-frame; the spring-finger of a bobbin-frame.
1766Museum Rust. VI. 10 The presser, which Mr. Crockatt's chaff-cutter uses. 1799G. Smith Laboratory I. 7 To these sort of saddles are also made pressers, whereby the cases on the roller are pressed down with a heavy hand. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 523 The number of pressers should be increased, or a considerable extent of land be pressed before it is sown. 1852Trans. Soc. Arts LVI. 475, I have made experiments with the drill and drill-presser in the same field. 1853Ure Dict. Arts II. 831 The legs of the flyers carry an arm called a ‘presser’. 1873Young Englishwoman Mar. 150/2, I get the stitching as close as the width of space between the needle hole and the edge of presser. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 110/2 Tobacco and Vegetable Slicers. Brawn, Tongue and Lard Pressers.
b. A cider-press or wine-press.
1570Levins Manip. 73/12 A presser, pressorium. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 408 The way to breake them [apples] in peeces, is to put them in a presser made round. 1845Ld. Campbell Chancellors (1857) I. xiii. 197 From the vat of the purest presser it passed, dregless, into the vat of our memory.
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a. A press, a cupboard. Obs.
1503in Ripon Ch. Acts (Surtees) 296 Unum magnum le buke presser. 1592Knaresborough Wills (Surtees) I. 188 One presser standinge at my bedd head.
†b. A press-bed. Obs.
1557in Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees) I. 159 In the Chamber ouer the Hall... A presser wth a mattres in it vjs viijd.
5. Comb.: presser-bar, (a) the presser in a knitting-machine: see 3; (b) the vertical bar in a sewing-machine which bears the presser-foot; presser-eye Spinning, an aperture or eye through which cotton yarn passes before being wound on the spindle; presser-flyer (Spinning), a flyer (see flyer 3 e) having a spring-arm which presses against the bobbin to regulate the tension in winding on the yarn; presser-foot, the foot-plate of a sewing-machine which holds the cloth down to the feed-plate; also attrib.; presser-frame, a spinning-frame furnished with presser-flyers.
1908Sears, Roebuck Catal. 41/2 The presser bar is round and fitted with a presser bar adjuster by which the pressure on the goods is regulated. 1974J. Robinson Penguin Bk. Sewing ii. 36/1 Presser Bar..Stitch Length Regulator.
1892J. Nasmith Students' Cotton Spinning ix. 340 In short, the traveller performs the same function as the flyer eye in the throstle or the presser eye in the roving frame.
1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 262/1 Parts for Old Style Low Arm Singer..Presser Foot. 1908Sears, Roebuck Catal. 41/1 The presser foot has a very large under surface, which extends on both sides of the needle and holds any weight goods firmly in place over the feed. The forward part of the presser foot nearest the operator is curved upward so that foot will not catch in seams of fleecy materials. 1932Presser-foot [see hemming vbl. n.1 b]. 1961Which? Nov. 277 (caption) Presser-foot screw..presser-foot lever. 1964A. Butler Teaching Children Embroidery 29 Stitches with the presser foot, on..a [sewing] machine with a zigzag attachment. |