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threader|ˈθrɛdə(r)|
Also 5 thredere, 9 thredder.
[f. thread v. + -er1.]
One who or that which threads; spec. a. a person employed to keep the shuttles threaded in weaving; b. a bodkin for threading tape or ribbon through interstices in a garment or the like; see also quot. 1877.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. lviii. (1869) 204 My mooder Charitee was cordere and thredere [Fr. fillaciere]. 1877Knight Dict. Mech., Threader, a device for guiding the thread into the eye of a needle. See Needle-threader. 1908Daily News 1 Aug. 5/1 He went, at the age of ten, into a lace mill, where he advanced from the position of a ‘jacker off’ to that of a ‘thredder’. 1911Ibid. 3 May 8 Inspecting automatic threaders and inquiring into their adaptability. |