jiggerern.
/ˈdʒɪɡərə/ One who uses or works with a jigger (in various trades).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who works with trams, tubs, etc.
coal putter1708
foal1770
onsetter1789
putter1812
headsman1813
trapper1815
thruster1825
trammer1839
train boy1852
tram1856
hanger-on1858
tipper1861
hooker-on?1881
jiggerer?1881
hitcher1890
tub-loader1891
haulier1892
tilter1892
unhooker1892
flatter1894
jagger1900
thrutcher1901
tram-boy1904
filler1921
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > potter > [noun] > involved in specific process
glazer1839
slapper1860
mould-runner1863
lathe-treader1865
jollier?1881
tower1894
ground-layer1898
placer1898
lead-glazier1899
glazier1900
thimble-picker1901
jiggerer1921
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 88 China, Porcelain, Manufacture:..Jigger or Gigger Turner, Jiggerer.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 84 Coal Miner…Loader, Jiggerer, Trammer, Hooker-on.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §043 Jigger, jigger boy, jiggerer..attaches or detaches tubs, singly or in pairs, to or from endless rope, by placing rope in fork of ‘jigger’, or double crook, in socket at one side or end of tubs.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §105 Jigger, jiggerer, makes flat-ware such as plates, saucers; presses bat of clay on top of mould, already revolving on vertical spindle.
1931 W. H. Warburton Hist. Trade Union Organization in Potteries xi. 205 By this scheme his hollow-ware pressers would employ female assistants in the same way as did his hollow-ware jiggerers and ‘jolliers’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.?1881