kettlerketlern.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > mender > [noun] > of pots, kettles, etc.
tinkler?c1214
tinker1243
prig1567
kettler1604
kettleman1629
ting-tang1633
1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1840) V. 543 I would have the sometimes go disguised (in honest apparel), and so drawing in amongst bunglers and ketlers, under the plain frieze of simplicity [etc.].
2. A colour-mixer's assistant who attends to the boiling of dyestuffs.
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the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > dyer > assistant to dyer
kettler1921
1921 in Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §381.
1960 Classif. of Occup. (General Register Office) 51/2 Kettler..106 [dyers of textiles].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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