wettern.
1.
a. One who wets; spec. one who damps paper to be used in printing.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > [noun] > one who or that which
wetter1737
1737 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 33) ii. 93 Wetters of paper for [rolling-press].
1760 Court & City Reg. 130 7 Layers of Paper, and 2 Wetters of ditto.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 154 Wetter, the workman whose duty it is to ‘wet down’ paper preparatory to printing.
b. wetter-off, in glass-making, a workman who detaches glass by wetting it. (Cf. wet v. 13.)
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > glass-maker > [noun] > involved in specific process
glass-blower?1518
annealer1656
sarole-man1662
lamp-worker1665
leer man1849
founder1853
wetter-off1883
smalt-maker1921
smalter1923
presser1962
firer1998
1883 H. J. Powell Princ. Glass-making 86 If the bottle be large it is handed, whilst still attached to the blowing-iron, to the ‘wetter off’, who detaches it by applying a moistened tool to the neck.
1888 Daily News 14 Feb. 6/7 The glass is never attached to any part of the machine, and so the ‘wetter-off’ is dispensed with.
2. colloquial. A wetting, soaking.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [noun] > an instance of
dousinga1614
sousing?1697
sop1729
sopping1824
souser1862
sogging1882
wetter1885
1885 D. B. W. Sladen Poetry of Exiles (ed. 2) I. 28 Unheedful of the dew..Until a shiver told him that he'd ‘had a thorough wetter’.
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