A person who splits or tears something. Cf. rive, v.1 In later use English regional (northern and East Anglian). Now rare.

A person whose employment involves melting metals or other substances, esp. in a factory, mint, etc. Formerly also: †the title of an officer of the…

orig. Scottish. A person who impresses designs or figures on dies, for stamping coins, medals, etc.; esp. the official charged with this duty at…

One who or that which folds. gen. Also folder up.

A person who wipes; spec. in various industries, a workman employed in wiping something clean or dry. Also with adverb, as away, out.

One who cleans wool, cloth, clothes, etc.

A person who heaves (in various senses: see the verb); spec. a labourer employed in landing goods at a dockyard. (See also ballast heaver n. at b…

One who stoves.

A person who or thing which rasps or grates something; spec. a machine for rasping beetroot, potatoes, etc.

A person who rips something. Chiefly in specialist and technical uses: one who work involves ripping, sawing, clearing away, etc. (see rip, v.1 I.).

A person who rolls a thing along or away; spec. (in later use chiefly North American) a bowler.

One who smears.

A person with responsibility for the provision or removal of water in an ironworks or (in later use) a coal mine. Obsolete.

One who or that which scoops.

Coining. A person who strikes the die which imprints the design on a coin. Obsolete. rare.

A thing that punches something, esp. an instrument, tool, or machine for punching; a person who punches something or someone.

(See quot. 1688) Obsolete.

spec. One whose trade is to crush some article for economic purposes.

A person whose job involves hardening a particular substance or object; spec. one whose job is to harden metal. Now rare (chiefly historical).

U.S. A worker employed in reaming (reaming, n. 1). rare.

A person who drives piles into the ground, or who operates a pile-driving machine.

In a rolling mill: a person who takes hold of the metal with tongs as it comes out of the rollers. Now rare.

A person employed to make something waterproof.

A worker who performs the middle of three operations in the manual cleaning of flax. Obsolete.

(See quots.)

hanger-on n. Coal Mining. The same as onsetter, a workman who puts the corves or tubs into the ‘cage’ or ‘chair’ at the bottom of the pit-shaft…

A worker who carries, relays, or puts in place goods or equipment; (in later use) esp. a porter in a meat market.

A machine designed to deliver an impact in the course of some process; (Bookbinding) a machine for compressing book blocks between iron plates (cf. sm…

A person who paints fine lines on something, esp. the body of a vehicle. Now rare.

A worker who arranges raw bricks for firing in a kiln. In later use also: a machine which performs this function.

One who or something that waxes. gen.

A person who collects empty bottles and sells them for reuse.

An operative in various crafts.

= sense B.

spec. One who takes or makes a model by running some liquid or forcing a plastic substance into a mould.

A person who or thing that recycles waste material, energy, etc. Also in extended use.

North American. A person employed to repair and maintain telephone or electricity power lines. Cf. linesman, n. 2, lineman, n. 1.