| 单词 | quill boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquill boy quill boy n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > winding on spool or bobbin > spool or bobbin > one who works with or attends to quill boy?1711 quill winder1738 bobbin-boy1871 bobbin-turner1886 ?1711 Answer to Paper of Reflexions on Project for Laying Duty on Eng. Wrought Silks 1 Great Advantages will be reap'd by the Weavers, because there will be employed..some thousads of Winders, Warpers,..Quill-boys, Loom-makers, and several others depending on the same trade. 1771 J. W. Baker Addr. to Representatives of People 10 I shall suppose only one third of them men, one third women, and the remaining third young lads and girls employed as quill-boys, spinners, &c. which make up our 27,000 manufacturers. 1920 A. P. Usher Introd. Industr. Hist. Eng. ix. 223 The force of weavers and quill boys is apparently excessive. 1949 Dict. Occup. Titles (ed. 2) II. 1055/2 Quill Boy (textile)... Quill collector, quill man. A laborer. Removes empty quills from quill boxes at looms and transports them in hand trucks to spinning department where they are refilled. < as lemmas |
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