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piece-broker
(See quot. 1756.)
1697Lond Gaz. No. 3304/3 One Gawen Hardy.., Piece-Broker, was..Indicted for Felony.., for paying and putting off Counterfeit Milled Money. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. II. iv. vii. 118/2 Hollowel Street..a Place inhabited by divers Salesmen and Piece-Brokers. 1756Rolt Dict. Trade, Piece-broker, is a shopkeeper in London, who buys the shreds and remnants of all materials that go through the hands of the taylor, and sells them again to such persons as want them for mending cloaths; being generally decayed taylors, or some cunning men who have crept into the secrets of the trade. 1770Chron. in Ann. Reg. 143/2 Mr. Muzere, aged 90, many years an eminent piece-broker, who never trusted any money out at interest, but put it into an iron chest. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Piece-broker [as in Rolt]. |