| 单词 | cropper work |
| 释义 | > as lemmascropper work Printing. The name given to a small printing-machine, the Minerva platen, after H. S. Cropper, the inventor (1866). Also attributive, as cropper boy, cropper-hand, cropper-machine, cropper work. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > [noun] > platen platen printing machine1848 platen machine1849 cropper?1881 Minerva1883 Minerva machine1888 Minerva press1888 Miehle1902 society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinder > [noun] > worker performing specific process clasp-man1619 clasp-maker1664 gatherer1683 stitcher1805 book-edge gilder1823 tooler1834 marbler1835 book marbler1843 paper marbler1863 forwarder1870 cropper?1881 flush-binder?1881 inlayer1881 boarder1882 filleter1884 clasper1885 placer1902 ?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 40 Letter-Press Printing:..Cropper Hand. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 28 Cropper, a short term for the ‘cropper’ small printing platen machine. 1892 Daily News 23 Sept. 8/6, Printers' Advt. Cropper hand wants work. 1896 Daily News 30 Oct. 10/6 Compositor (young). Jobbing and cropper. 1901 Daily Chron. 3 Dec. 9/7 Printers.—Young man seeks Situation in machine room; good reference for Cropper work. 1903 Daily Chron. 4 Mar. 9/7 Printers.—Cropper boy wanted. 1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §529 Machine minder, platen; cropper hand; has charge of platen machine. < as lemmas |
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