gradern.
/ˈɡreɪdə/, U.S. /ˈɡreɪdər/ 1. A person employed:
a. in grading produce (see grade v.2).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > one who grades produce
grader1850
1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 257 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI This grader was to be sworn, as flour inspectors and other agents are.
1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 266 The grader selects a portion of the best wheat.
1889 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 22 Nov. Graders whose business is to classify cotton for English markets.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 7 Mar. 9/3 The wool was duly delivered..and a large number of graders put to work preparing it for cleaning.
b. in grading roads (see grade v.2 4).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > builder > [noun] > builders or maintainers of roads
waymaker?c1475
roadman1788
road-maker1792
path master1799
roadsman?1807
Macadamite1821
macadamizer1824
road breaker1834
grader1870
asphalter1880
linesman1888
lengthman1902
highway patrol1909
1870 Times 5 Sept. 5 Track-laying will be commenced next week, and will be pushed forward after the graders as fast as the iron is received.
1883 W. H. Bishop in Harper's Mag. 825/2 The grader of streets will probably follow the..mining capitalist.
2. A machine for ‘grading’ (in various senses).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > earth-moving and excavating equipment > [noun] > other equipment
snow-plough1792
road roller1820
horse-block1825
sludger1839
horsing-block1856
channeller1867
grader1869
push plough1890
snowblade1947
ripper1953
mouldboard1956
groomer1966
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]
reeler1598
driver1659
rubber1747
heading machine1795
bruiser1809
finisher1835
stripper1835
physionotype1836
rotary1836
tetraspaston1842
netting-machine1846
speeder1847
dresser1855
spacer1857
starcher1862
bronzing liquid, machine1865
finishing machine1869
grader1869
brain machine1872
peanut roaster1872
bending machine1874
screw-machine1876
tire-upsetting-machine1877
buncher?1881
flax-breaker1889
oscillator1889
fluoroscope1893
fluorometer1897
mucker1916
spray dryer1921
paver1926
teabagger1940
burster1950
icemaker1953
laminator1958
slipform (concrete) paver1958
extruder1959
Zamboni1965
manipulator1968
wave machine1968
pipelayer1969
walking machine1971
1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 361 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The side tracks [should be] kept in order by the use of the grader. [Plate, Improved Rut Scraper and Grading Machine.]
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 410/1 Grader (Railway), A temporary track is laid, and from a platform and caboose car on this track a double plow is rigged out to throw up a track.
1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Grader, an earth scraper.
1888 Wine, Spirit & Beer 8 Mar. 142/2 The machine consists of two separate frames, one containing the half-corn separator, feed-hopper and elevator, and the other the grader.
1953 R. J. C. Atkinson Field Archaeol. (ed. 2) ii. 58 For stripping large areas a bulldozer or grader is to be preferred.
1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 11 The roads are kept up by a ‘grader’, a kind of steamroller with a wide scraper attached in front.
1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 14 When a grader is removing topsoil as a preliminary to the extension of a chalk pit it may reveal ditches, post-holes, beam slots, rubbish pits [etc.].
1971 Timber Trades Jrnl. 21 Aug. 26/2 No grading machine is in operation at present in Sweden, but the major sawmillers are actively studying the potential offered by machine graders.
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