† thickern.
Obsolete.
One who ‘thicks’ or fulls cloth; a fuller. Also as second element in combination, as cap-thicker, say-thicker.
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waulkereOE
fullerOE
waulkster1355
tucker1388
cloth-thicker?1518
thicker1520
waulk miller1753
plash-miller1822
1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. D.vv In the strete vpon the back half: be drapers..cappers, thykkers of cappes.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 944/2 One Walker a thicker of S. Clementes.
1641 Short Relation Soap-busines 18 Diers, Wool-Combers, Saye-Thickers, and the like.
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