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▪ I. sorter|ˈsɔːtə(r)|
[f. sort v.1 + -er.]
1. a. One who sorts, arranges, selects, or classifies; esp. a wool-sorter. Also transf.
1554Act 1 Mary c. 7 §1 Forcers of Wolles..and Sorters of Wolles. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 201 The tounge is assinde, of woordes to be sorter. 1758Jortin Life Erasmus I. 488 It is plain More wrote it not—and..he says he was a sorter of that book. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. i. (1869) I. 12 The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the wool-comber, or carder. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. iii. 96 The fingers of the sorter acquire by practice an extraordinary degree of sensitiveness. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 339/2 Wool..is..divided into ‘sorts’ or qualities by experienced sorters or staplers.
b. spec. A letter-sorter.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Sorter, (at the Post Office) that puts or Digests the Letters into Order or Method. 1737J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. List Offices [in G.P.O.] 690 Sorters 16, of which 14 have 50l. per An. and the two last 40l. 1861Wynter Soc. Bees 3 Others again..carry the letters for the general delivery to the tables of the sorters. 1895Forum (U.S.) Oct. 196 A sorter at the post-office..may accidentally sort one letter of his own out of a million.
2. With advs., as out.
1599Life More in C. Wordsworth Eccl. Biog. (1817) II. 169, I was onlie a sorter out and placer of principall matters in the same [book] contained. 1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) 65/3 Worsted Manufacture:..Sorter out, Spinner.
3. A machine that can sort punched cards into a prescribed order by means of a code punched on selected columns of the cards.
1917L. R. Dicksee Office Machinery ii. 16 Beyond all question, the most notable..Sorting Machine is the Hollerith Sorter. 1940W. J. Eckert Punched Card Methods Sci. Computation 10 The sorter automatically sorts the cards into groups according to the information punched in any chosen column of the cards. The cards to be sorted are placed in the hopper..and the sorted cards fall into the various receptacles. 1949[see interpreter 5 a]. 1956G. A. Montgomerie Digital Calculating Machines viii. 146 The second basic piece of equipment is the sorter... A pack of punched cards can be fed into this machine and each card will be automatically examined in turn. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing iv. 68 If a deck of cards is to be ordered according to a multi-digit number..by means of a sorter, it is necessary to let the cards pass through the sorter as many times as the number field has digits.
Hence ˈsortership, the office or position of a letter-sorter.
1886Guide Civil Service 293 Competitive Examination for Female Sorterships in the General Post Office, London.
▪ II. sorter
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