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starcher|ˈstɑːtʃə(r)|
[f. starch v. and n. + -er1.]
1. One whose employment or trade is to starch linen.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. (Percy Soc.) 10 Butlers, sterchers, and musterde makers. 1598Florio, Amitatrice, a starcher. 1614Stow Ann. 869/1 [In 1564] Mistris Dinghen..came to London..and there professed herselfe a starcher. 1669E. Chamberlayne Pres. State Eng. i. xiv. 302 Of the Queen Consorts Court... A Laundress, a Semstress, a Starcher. 1725Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Clear Starching, Most Starchers boil their Muslins, which they should not by reason it wears them out. 1893Laundry Management ix. 63 People of inventive turns of mind have stepped in the breach to help the starchers, offering them prepared glazes.
2. A starched neckcloth; also attrib.
1818(title) Neckclothitania; or, Tietania: being an Essay on Starchers. Ibid. 38 If this be true..a furious effort must be made unanimously by all starcher-wearers, to stop it in its birth. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour i. 3 If [he wore] a striped waistcoat, then the starcher would be imbued with somewhat of the same colour and pattern.
3. A starching machine.
1893Laundry Management ix. 65 In machine starching, the liquid starch is poured into a dash-wheel revolving washer or special starcher. 1909Daily Chron. 3 Sept. 6/6 Contents of Laundry, 6 washing machines, two starchers. |