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off-bear, v.|ˈɒfbɛə(r), ɔː-|
[f. off adv. + bear v.]
trans. To bear or carry off; spec. in Brick-making, etc. (see quots.). So ˈoff-ˌbearer.
18665th Rep. Children's Employment Commission 142/1 in Parl. Papers XXIV. 1 The walk flatter is often a young woman, and the off-bearer a young man. 1884C. T. Davis Bricks & Tiles 18 Others still are off-bearing [ed. 1889 bearing off] the bricks. Ibid. (1889) 130 The off-bearer rakes the dried sand into a pile, and sieves it into a half-barrel, called ‘the tub’. Ibid. 132 A moulding gang consists of one laborer called the ‘moulder’, and one able-bodied man called the ‘wheeler’, and one boy called the ‘off-bearer’. 1887A. A. Brown Lumbering on the Cumberland 47 Caleb occupied the position of honor, and acted as ‘sawyer’. Abe was ‘setter’, and Eph was ‘off-bearer’. 1894Columbus (O.) Disp. 8 Mar., An off-bearer at ―'s saw mill..was horribly mangled to-day. 1939D. Hartley Made in England v. 170 In one shed there seemed to be about six workers, and their names indicated their share of the job; ‘moulder’, ‘temperer’, ‘off-bearer’, [etc.]. |