pressern.¹

Brit.

/ˈprɛsə/, U.S.

/ˈprɛsər/

Forms: 1500s preser, 1500s pressor, 1500s– presser.

Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Probably partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: pressour n.; press v.¹, -er suffix¹.

Etymology: In sense 1 probably alteration (with suffix substitution: see -er suffix¹) of pressour n., perhaps after dresser n.¹ In later senses < press v.¹ + -er suffix¹. With sense 1 compare earlier press n.¹ 10. With sense 2b compare Middle French presseur person who operates a press for textiles (1384 in an apparently isolated attestation).With the form pressor compare -or suffix.

a. A cupboard; = press n.¹ 10. Now English regional (northern).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > recessed

thirla1300

pressc1387

pressour1444

presser1503

bow closet1759

1503 Will in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 296 Unum magnum le buke presser.

1592 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 188 One presser standinge att my bedd head.

1600 in J. M. Bestall & D. V. Fowkes Chesterfield Wills & Inventories 1521–1603 (1977) 273 A presser for closse of 3 boardes.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 551 Presser, a press or clothes closet; usually a large movable closet.

†b. A press bed. Obsolete.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > folding bed for house > which folds into cupboard

presser1557

press bed1660

press bedstead1683

wardrobe bedstead1801

1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 159 In the Chamber ouer the Hall... A presser w^th a mattres in it vj^s viij^d.

1648 in P. C. D. Brears Yorkshire Probate Inventories 1542–1689 (1972) 97 Item one presser & quision 13.4d.

a. A person who operates a press; spec. a person who operates a wine press, olive press, etc. Now rare. In quot. 1614: a printer (obsolete).

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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun]

printer?1492

presser1545

imprinter1552

pressman1578

typographer1643

hog1732

typograph1737

pig1806

hand pressman1842

typographist1851

the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > operator of press

presser1545

pressman?1611

wine-presser1632

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with other specific tools or equipment

presser1545

stamper1556

blocker1609

benchman1658

engineman1777

squaremanc1790

kettleman1833

vice-man1837

poleman1859

tackle-man1859

ladler1875

sand-blaster?1881

ticket chopper1898

cager1908

gadgeteer1926

paint sprayer1928

1545 T. Elyot Bibliotheca (new ed.) Torcularius,..a presser.

1614 Monstr. Serp. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 228 Pamphleting pressers.

1641 T. Herbert Reply Def. Oxf. Petition 4 It is not fit the Presser should the Vine Cut downe.

1740 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (new ed.) at Wine The Pressers of Champaigne press the Grapes so hard, that after they have done, the Marc is as hard as a Stone.

1791 W. Newton tr. M. V. Pollio Archit. II. ix. 142 If the press be not worked by screws, but by levers, the press-room should not be less than forty feet long, that the pressers may have sufficient space.

2001 Evening Post (Wellington) (Nexis) 26 May 10 (caption) Te Horo grower Ray Hollis and presser Robin Pennell, right, watch the production of New Zealand's first certified organic olive oil at Paraparaumu.

b. A person who is employed to press cloth, felt, etc., esp. in tailoring or hat-making (cf. press v.¹ 2); (also) a person who presses wool into bales.cloth-, stocking-, trouser-presser, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > one who packs up wool

wool-winder?1523

presser1549

wool-folder1550

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > other > one who

presser1549

button-hole hand1858

fitter1858

buttonholer1860

buttoner1863

topper1884

1549 Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI c. 2 §10 Clothworkers Dyers and Pressors howses shoppes and other places.

1678 J. Vernon Compl. Compting-house 2 My Father sent me the other day to take some Stufs with our man from several Places. I had of our Packer 6 Dyer 19 Presser 17 Drawer 4.

a1690 J. Collinges Weavers Pocket-bk. (1766) 147 What an innumerable, company of spinsters, wool-combers, filling-boys, shearmen, dyers, pressers, &c. depend upon them.

1698 L. Menton Money Masters all Things 43 With Turners and Winders, Shearmen, Teasers, Weighers and Mixers, Separaters, Pressers.

1724 J. Swift Let. to Molesworth 4 I am not Richer..with the Sale of all the several Stuffs I have contrived; for I give the whole Profit to the Dyers and Pressers.

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 204 Operatives engaged in our woollen manufacture:—Wool-sorters..pressers, brushers, and steamers.

1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Pressers, men engaged in pressing the seams of garments with heated irons.

1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Feb. 380/1 [In hat-manufacture] blockers, including ‘pressers’.

1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 9 Presser, a skilled man who presses the wool into bales so that they are not ‘light on’ (short in weight).

1996 Daily Tel. 16 Aug. 5/4 Pauline..had worked as a presser in the Sunderland branch of the Wakefield Shirt Company for almost five years.

c. Ceramics. A person who makes items of pottery by pressing prepared clay into plaster of Paris moulds. Also Glass-making: a person who shapes glass by a similar method.Sometimes with distinguishing word indicating the type of ware being made, as hollow-ware presser, etc.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > potter > [noun] > maker of specific type of pottery

pot-maker1548

red potter1756

presser1769

porcelainist1868

pot-builder1890

studio potter1910

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > glass-maker > [noun] > involved in specific process

glass-blower?1518

annealer1656

sarole-man1662

lamp-worker1665

leer man1849

founder1853

wetter-off1883

smalt-maker1921

smalter1923

presser1962

firer1998

1769 Eng. Displayed II. 70/1 The earnings of the people employed in this manufacture are various..; pressers, eight shillings to nine; painters, ten shillings to twelve.

1770 A. Young Six Months' Tour N. Eng. (1771) III. xx. 255 I had the pleasure of viewing the Staffordshire potteries at Burslem... Modellers.., Pressers.., Painters.., Moulders in plaister of Paris.

1838 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 1 42 Flat and Hollow ware pressers, are only paid for the work which comes in a perfect state out of the biscuit-oven.

1863 1st Rep. Children's Employment Commission 3 in Parl. Papers 18 1 Flat pressers... It includes dishmakers, platemakers, saucermakers, and cup and bowl makers.

1898 C. F. Binns Story of Potter iv. i. 202 The hollow-ware presser uses a whirler, but not a jigger, and does all his work by hand... The clay is beaten out into suitable bats, and these are pressed and beaten into the mould until every crevice is properly filled.

1908 N.E.D. (at cited word) Distinguished into flat pressers, who make plates; hollow-ware pressers, who make cups, basins, vases, and the like; and ornamental pressers, who make ornamental porcelain, relief work, etc.

1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 45 Presser, a worker who shapes glass by pressing in a mould by hand or by machine.

2001 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 4 Nov. 6 With them in their modest two up, two down home lived their son, also called William who at 28 was a hollow ware presser.

a. = press n.¹ 2a.

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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > wine-press

wringc890

pressour1348

press1373

calcatoryc1420

wine press1526

wine-vat1526

presser1570

vine-press1587

grape-press1615

the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > cider-making > [noun] > mill or press

wringc890

presser1570

pound1627

stone-case1664

ingenio1669

cider press1673

hopper axis1808

fruit-mill1874

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiii^v/1 A Presser, pressorium.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xlix. 530 The way to breake them [sc. apples] in peeces, is to put them in a presser made round.

1650 E. Williams Virginia's Discov. Silke-worms 62 The Mill-stones, Oyle-mills, Pressers, and all other instruments serving thereunto being very well cleansed, and the aire having been before as well heated by a plentifull fire.

?1760 W. Graham Art of making Wines from Fruits, Flowers, & Herbs (ed. 2) 17 To make wine of Cherries. Take cherries, indifferently ripe..and put them into an earthen glazed vessel, and with your clean hands squeeze them to a pulp; or you may do it with a wooden ladle, or presser.

1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors I. xiii. 225 From the press of the purest presser it passed, dregless, into the vat of our memory.

1937 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 30 Nov. 9/4 Some equipment is needed but crushers and pressers stand ready to do both tasks for a modest sum.

1993 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 17 Sept. 3 Once those apples are peeled, cored and washed, it's into the pressers. The end result is a cider fit for fall celebration.

b. An instrument, machine, or part of a machine which applies pressure; (Spinning) a roller on a drawing frame which exerts pressure, or a spring arm on a bobbin frame which regulates tension in the yarn; frequently with modifying word. Also: = presser bar n., presser foot n. at Compounds.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > press

pressoura1398

press1674

presser1740

squeezer1839

1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (rev. ed.) App. p. xxxiii To these sort of saddles are also made pressers, whereby the cases on the roller are pressed down with a heavy hand.

1766 Museum Rusticum 6 10 The presser, which Mr. Crockatt's chaff-cutter uses.

1831 G. Henson Civil Hist. Framework-knitters iv. 167 The slide presser..was added, by lowering and raising which, the workman could either tuck or not... Other improvements have..been made upon the tuck presser.

1847 Trans. Soc. Arts 1846–7 i. 475 I have made frequent experiments with the drill and drill-presser in the same field.

1873 Young Englishwoman Mar. 150/2 I get the stitching as close as the width of space between the needle hole and the edge of presser.

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110/2 Tobacco and Vegetable Slicers. Brawn, Tongue and Lard Pressers.

1936 A. G. Street Gentleman of Party i. 22 Humph! I see. Well, put three ploughs and a presser in Pike's Piece on Boxing Day.

1979 W. Zander Distances iv. 50 The hissing Of pressers seeped through the floor From the shop below.

†4. figurative. A person who presses a cause or idea; an advocate of something. Obsolete.

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the mind > language > statement > pressure or urgency > [noun] > one who

presser1641

1641 W. Prynne Antipathie ii. v. 291 Hee was a great stickler in the late warre against the Scots, a vehement presser of the loane on the Clergy to maintaine it.

1643 J. White 1st Cent. Scandalous Priests 35 A great practiser and presser of the late illegall Innovations.

1678 R. McWard Poor Man's Cup Cold-water 34 That wrath of the living God, wherewith all the contrivers, all the pressers of these bonds of iniquitie..shall be certainly pursued.

Compounds

presser bar n. (a) the part of a knitting machine which drives a hook on the needle into a groove running along the needle; (b) the vertical bar in a sewing machine connected to the presser foot.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > sewing-machine > parts of or attachments for

presser bar1813

flat bed1819

shuttle1847

foot1854

looper1857

take-up1859

work holder1859

feller1860

shuttle-carrier1860

binder1865

braider1866

ruffler1868

presser foot1875

shuttle-windera1877

tension-device1877

thread-cutter1877

thread-oiler1877

tuck-creaser1877

tucking-gauge1877

tuck-marker1877

thread-guide1924

zipper foot1938

free arm1948

balance-wheel1961

tuck-folder-

1813 Times 15 Jan. 3/4 They..twisted off the presser-bars, or broke them in two. A footing frame shared the same fate.

1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 748/1 By the action of the treadle the presser bar is made to act upon the barbs of the needles to close them with the thread within them.

1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 41/2 The presser bar is round and fitted with a presser bar adjuster by which the pressure on the goods is regulated.

1993 Nikkei Weekly (Japan) (Nexis) 17 May 14 The new machine..includes safety features such as an automatic-stop function whenever the presser bar is elevated.

presser eye n. Spinning (now rare) an aperture or eye through which cotton yarn passes before being wound on to the spindle.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > types of > parts of

mendoza1803

faller1807

headstock1825

rim wheel1827

traveller1830

ring spindle1837

carrying comb1844

whirler1860

coiler1873

breaking-frame1875

nosing motion1883

tube1884

weigh-box1884

check-band1892

presser eye1892

thread-board1892

1892 J. Nasmith Students' Cotton Spinning ix. 340 In short, the traveller performs the same function as the flyer eye in the throstle or the presser eye in the roving frame.

1922 J. H. Crabtree Cotton Industry xv. 91 As the winding proceeds, the bobbins are seen to rise gradually; and the presser eye lays fresh yarn continually on the surface.

† presser-flyer n. Spinning Obsolete a kind of flyer (flyer n. 3e) with a spring arm which pressed against the bobbin to regulate tension while winding on the yarn.

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1872 Classified Index Subj. Invention (U.S. Patent Office) 152 Class 118. Spinning... Presser-flyers.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1785/1 Presser-flyer... One which has a spring arm pressing upon the bobbin upon which it delivers the yarn.

presser foot n. the footplate of a sewing machine which holds the material down over the feed.

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presser bar1813

flat bed1819

shuttle1847

foot1854

looper1857

take-up1859

work holder1859

feller1860

shuttle-carrier1860

binder1865

braider1866

ruffler1868

presser foot1875

shuttle-windera1877

tension-device1877

thread-cutter1877

thread-oiler1877

tuck-creaser1877

tucking-gauge1877

tuck-marker1877

thread-guide1924

zipper foot1938

free arm1948

balance-wheel1961

tuck-folder-

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1785/1 Presser-foot,..a foot-plate which presses upon the goods and holds them against the rough face of the feed.

1995 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. Autumn–Winter 951/2 Singer 8019 sewing machine... Easy snap on, snap off presser feet.

† presser-frame n. Obsolete a frame in a machine or device which acts as a presser or bears pressers; (Spinning) a spinning frame that has presser-flyers.

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1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts, Manuf., & Mines 546 The fifth invention relates to the ‘flyer’ now usually employed in ‘presser frames’.

1861 Sci. Amer. 20 Apr. 252/3 An improved washing machine, consisting of a vibratory presser frame, D, rotary dasher, C, [etc.].

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1785/1 Presser-frame, one finished with presser-flyers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	presser
释义	pressern.¹ Brit. /ˈprɛsə/, U.S. /ˈprɛsər/ Forms: 1500s preser, 1500s pressor, 1500s– presser. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Probably partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: pressour n.; press v.¹, -er suffix¹. Etymology: In sense 1 probably alteration (with suffix substitution: see -er suffix¹) of pressour n., perhaps after dresser n.¹ In later senses < press v.¹ + -er suffix¹. With sense 1 compare earlier press n.¹ 10. With sense 2b compare Middle French presseur person who operates a press for textiles (1384 in an apparently isolated attestation).With the form pressor compare -or suffix. 1. a. A cupboard; = press n.¹ 10. Now English regional (northern). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > recessed thirla1300 pressc1387 pressour1444 presser1503 bow closet1759 1503 Will in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 296 Unum magnum le buke presser. 1592 in F. Collins Wills & Admin. Knaresborough Court Rolls (1902) I. 188 One presser standinge att my bedd head. 1600 in J. M. Bestall & D. V. Fowkes Chesterfield Wills & Inventories 1521–1603 (1977) 273 A presser for closse of 3 boardes. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words 551 Presser, a press or clothes closet; usually a large movable closet. †b. A press bed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > folding bed for house > which folds into cupboard presser1557 press bed1660 press bedstead1683 wardrobe bedstead1801 1557 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 159 In the Chamber ouer the Hall... A presser w^th a mattres in it vj^s viij^d. 1648 in P. C. D. Brears Yorkshire Probate Inventories 1542–1689 (1972) 97 Item one presser & quision 13.4d. 2. a. A person who operates a press; spec. a person who operates a wine press, olive press, etc. Now rare. In quot. 1614: a printer (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] printer?1492 presser1545 imprinter1552 pressman1578 typographer1643 hog1732 typograph1737 pig1806 hand pressman1842 typographist1851 the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > operator of press presser1545 pressman?1611 wine-presser1632 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with other specific tools or equipment presser1545 stamper1556 blocker1609 benchman1658 engineman1777 squaremanc1790 kettleman1833 vice-man1837 poleman1859 tackle-man1859 ladler1875 sand-blaster?1881 ticket chopper1898 cager1908 gadgeteer1926 paint sprayer1928 1545 T. Elyot Bibliotheca (new ed.) Torcularius,..a presser. 1614 Monstr. Serp. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 228 Pamphleting pressers. 1641 T. Herbert Reply Def. Oxf. Petition 4 It is not fit the Presser should the Vine Cut downe. 1740 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (new ed.) at Wine The Pressers of Champaigne press the Grapes so hard, that after they have done, the Marc is as hard as a Stone. 1791 W. Newton tr. M. V. Pollio Archit. II. ix. 142 If the press be not worked by screws, but by levers, the press-room should not be less than forty feet long, that the pressers may have sufficient space. 2001 Evening Post (Wellington) (Nexis) 26 May 10 (caption) Te Horo grower Ray Hollis and presser Robin Pennell, right, watch the production of New Zealand's first certified organic olive oil at Paraparaumu. b. A person who is employed to press cloth, felt, etc., esp. in tailoring or hat-making (cf. press v.¹ 2); (also) a person who presses wool into bales.cloth-, stocking-, trouser-presser, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > one who packs up wool wool-winder?1523 presser1549 wool-folder1550 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > carrying out specific processes > other > one who presser1549 button-hole hand1858 fitter1858 buttonholer1860 buttoner1863 topper1884 1549 Act 3 & 4 Edw. VI c. 2 §10 Clothworkers Dyers and Pressors howses shoppes and other places. 1678 J. Vernon Compl. Compting-house 2 My Father sent me the other day to take some Stufs with our man from several Places. I had of our Packer 6 Dyer 19 Presser 17 Drawer 4. a1690 J. Collinges Weavers Pocket-bk. (1766) 147 What an innumerable, company of spinsters, wool-combers, filling-boys, shearmen, dyers, pressers, &c. depend upon them. 1698 L. Menton Money Masters all Things 43 With Turners and Winders, Shearmen, Teasers, Weighers and Mixers, Separaters, Pressers. 1724 J. Swift Let. to Molesworth 4 I am not Richer..with the Sale of all the several Stuffs I have contrived; for I give the whole Profit to the Dyers and Pressers. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 204 Operatives engaged in our woollen manufacture:—Wool-sorters..pressers, brushers, and steamers. 1892 Labour Comm. Gloss. Pressers, men engaged in pressing the seams of garments with heated irons. 1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 Feb. 380/1 [In hat-manufacture] blockers, including ‘pressers’. 1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 9 Presser, a skilled man who presses the wool into bales so that they are not ‘light on’ (short in weight). 1996 Daily Tel. 16 Aug. 5/4 Pauline..had worked as a presser in the Sunderland branch of the Wakefield Shirt Company for almost five years. c. Ceramics. A person who makes items of pottery by pressing prepared clay into plaster of Paris moulds. Also Glass-making: a person who shapes glass by a similar method.Sometimes with distinguishing word indicating the type of ware being made, as hollow-ware presser, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > potter > [noun] > maker of specific type of pottery pot-maker1548 red potter1756 presser1769 porcelainist1868 pot-builder1890 studio potter1910 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > glass-maker > [noun] > involved in specific process glass-blower?1518 annealer1656 sarole-man1662 lamp-worker1665 leer man1849 founder1853 wetter-off1883 smalt-maker1921 smalter1923 presser1962 firer1998 1769 Eng. Displayed II. 70/1 The earnings of the people employed in this manufacture are various..; pressers, eight shillings to nine; painters, ten shillings to twelve. 1770 A. Young Six Months' Tour N. Eng. (1771) III. xx. 255 I had the pleasure of viewing the Staffordshire potteries at Burslem... Modellers.., Pressers.., Painters.., Moulders in plaister of Paris. 1838 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 1 42 Flat and Hollow ware pressers, are only paid for the work which comes in a perfect state out of the biscuit-oven. 1863 1st Rep. Children's Employment Commission 3 in Parl. Papers 18 1 Flat pressers... It includes dishmakers, platemakers, saucermakers, and cup and bowl makers. 1898 C. F. Binns Story of Potter iv. i. 202 The hollow-ware presser uses a whirler, but not a jigger, and does all his work by hand... The clay is beaten out into suitable bats, and these are pressed and beaten into the mould until every crevice is properly filled. 1908 N.E.D. (at cited word) Distinguished into flat pressers, who make plates; hollow-ware pressers, who make cups, basins, vases, and the like; and ornamental pressers, who make ornamental porcelain, relief work, etc. 1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Industry (B.S.I.) 45 Presser, a worker who shapes glass by pressing in a mould by hand or by machine. 2001 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 4 Nov. 6 With them in their modest two up, two down home lived their son, also called William who at 28 was a hollow ware presser. 3. a. = press n.¹ 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > wine-press wringc890 pressour1348 press1373 calcatoryc1420 wine press1526 wine-vat1526 presser1570 vine-press1587 grape-press1615 the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > cider-making > [noun] > mill or press wringc890 presser1570 pound1627 stone-case1664 ingenio1669 cider press1673 hopper axis1808 fruit-mill1874 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Fiii^v/1 A Presser, pressorium. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. xlix. 530 The way to breake them [sc. apples] in peeces, is to put them in a presser made round. 1650 E. Williams Virginia's Discov. Silke-worms 62 The Mill-stones, Oyle-mills, Pressers, and all other instruments serving thereunto being very well cleansed, and the aire having been before as well heated by a plentifull fire. ?1760 W. Graham Art of making Wines from Fruits, Flowers, & Herbs (ed. 2) 17 To make wine of Cherries. Take cherries, indifferently ripe..and put them into an earthen glazed vessel, and with your clean hands squeeze them to a pulp; or you may do it with a wooden ladle, or presser. 1845 Ld. Campbell Lives Chancellors I. xiii. 225 From the press of the purest presser it passed, dregless, into the vat of our memory. 1937 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 30 Nov. 9/4 Some equipment is needed but crushers and pressers stand ready to do both tasks for a modest sum. 1993 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 17 Sept. 3 Once those apples are peeled, cored and washed, it's into the pressers. The end result is a cider fit for fall celebration. b. An instrument, machine, or part of a machine which applies pressure; (Spinning) a roller on a drawing frame which exerts pressure, or a spring arm on a bobbin frame which regulates tension in the yarn; frequently with modifying word. Also: = presser bar n., presser foot n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > press pressoura1398 press1674 presser1740 squeezer1839 1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (rev. ed.) App. p. xxxiii To these sort of saddles are also made pressers, whereby the cases on the roller are pressed down with a heavy hand. 1766 Museum Rusticum 6 10 The presser, which Mr. Crockatt's chaff-cutter uses. 1831 G. Henson Civil Hist. Framework-knitters iv. 167 The slide presser..was added, by lowering and raising which, the workman could either tuck or not... Other improvements have..been made upon the tuck presser. 1847 Trans. Soc. Arts 1846–7 i. 475 I have made frequent experiments with the drill and drill-presser in the same field. 1873 Young Englishwoman Mar. 150/2 I get the stitching as close as the width of space between the needle hole and the edge of presser. 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 110/2 Tobacco and Vegetable Slicers. Brawn, Tongue and Lard Pressers. 1936 A. G. Street Gentleman of Party i. 22 Humph! I see. Well, put three ploughs and a presser in Pike's Piece on Boxing Day. 1979 W. Zander Distances iv. 50 The hissing Of pressers seeped through the floor From the shop below. †4. figurative. A person who presses a cause or idea; an advocate of something. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > pressure or urgency > [noun] > one who presser1641 1641 W. Prynne Antipathie ii. v. 291 Hee was a great stickler in the late warre against the Scots, a vehement presser of the loane on the Clergy to maintaine it. 1643 J. White 1st Cent. Scandalous Priests 35 A great practiser and presser of the late illegall Innovations. 1678 R. McWard Poor Man's Cup Cold-water 34 That wrath of the living God, wherewith all the contrivers, all the pressers of these bonds of iniquitie..shall be certainly pursued. Compounds presser bar n. (a) the part of a knitting machine which drives a hook on the needle into a groove running along the needle; (b) the vertical bar in a sewing machine connected to the presser foot. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > sewing-machine > parts of or attachments for presser bar1813 flat bed1819 shuttle1847 foot1854 looper1857 take-up1859 work holder1859 feller1860 shuttle-carrier1860 binder1865 braider1866 ruffler1868 presser foot1875 shuttle-windera1877 tension-device1877 thread-cutter1877 thread-oiler1877 tuck-creaser1877 tucking-gauge1877 tuck-marker1877 thread-guide1924 zipper foot1938 free arm1948 balance-wheel1961 tuck-folder- 1813 Times 15 Jan. 3/4 They..twisted off the presser-bars, or broke them in two. A footing frame shared the same fate. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 748/1 By the action of the treadle the presser bar is made to act upon the barbs of the needles to close them with the thread within them. 1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 41/2 The presser bar is round and fitted with a presser bar adjuster by which the pressure on the goods is regulated. 1993 Nikkei Weekly (Japan) (Nexis) 17 May 14 The new machine..includes safety features such as an automatic-stop function whenever the presser bar is elevated. presser eye n. Spinning (now rare) an aperture or eye through which cotton yarn passes before being wound on to the spindle. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > spinning > machine > types of > parts of mendoza1803 faller1807 headstock1825 rim wheel1827 traveller1830 ring spindle1837 carrying comb1844 whirler1860 coiler1873 breaking-frame1875 nosing motion1883 tube1884 weigh-box1884 check-band1892 presser eye1892 thread-board1892 1892 J. Nasmith Students' Cotton Spinning ix. 340 In short, the traveller performs the same function as the flyer eye in the throstle or the presser eye in the roving frame. 1922 J. H. Crabtree Cotton Industry xv. 91 As the winding proceeds, the bobbins are seen to rise gradually; and the presser eye lays fresh yarn continually on the surface. † presser-flyer n. Spinning Obsolete a kind of flyer (flyer n. 3e) with a spring arm which pressed against the bobbin to regulate tension while winding on the yarn. ΚΠ 1872 Classified Index Subj. Invention (U.S. Patent Office) 152 Class 118. Spinning... Presser-flyers. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1785/1 Presser-flyer... One which has a spring arm pressing upon the bobbin upon which it delivers the yarn. presser foot n. the footplate of a sewing machine which holds the material down over the feed. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > sewing-machine > parts of or attachments for presser bar1813 flat bed1819 shuttle1847 foot1854 looper1857 take-up1859 work holder1859 feller1860 shuttle-carrier1860 binder1865 braider1866 ruffler1868 presser foot1875 shuttle-windera1877 tension-device1877 thread-cutter1877 thread-oiler1877 tuck-creaser1877 tucking-gauge1877 tuck-marker1877 thread-guide1924 zipper foot1938 free arm1948 balance-wheel1961 tuck-folder- 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1785/1 Presser-foot,..a foot-plate which presses upon the goods and holds them against the rough face of the feed. 1995 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. Autumn–Winter 951/2 Singer 8019 sewing machine... Easy snap on, snap off presser feet. † presser-frame n. Obsolete a frame in a machine or device which acts as a presser or bears pressers; (Spinning) a spinning frame that has presser-flyers. ΚΠ 1853 A. Ure Dict. Arts, Manuf., & Mines 546 The fifth invention relates to the ‘flyer’ now usually employed in ‘presser frames’. 1861 Sci. Amer. 20 Apr. 252/3 An improved washing machine, consisting of a vibratory presser frame, D, rotary dasher, C, [etc.]. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1785/1 Presser-frame, one finished with presser-flyers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pressern.² Brit. /ˈprɛsə/, U.S. /ˈprɛsər/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: press conference n. at press n.¹ Compounds 2b, -er suffix⁶. Etymology: < press- (in press conference n. at press n.¹ Compounds 2b) + -er suffix⁶. colloquial. A press conference. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of parliament?a1400 diet1471 symposiac1603 by-conference1625 guestling1629 sanhedrim1653 comitia1684 symposium1784 assembly1794 powwow1812 neighbourhood meeting1823 colloquium1861 congress1861 party conference1875 indaba1894 press conference1908 case conference1913 story conference1920 telemeeting1973 poster session1974 START1981 presser1988 1988 PR Newswire (Nexis) 13 June (headline) Battered women advocates to hold presser... Advocates who work on behalf of battered women are holding a news conference. 1998 R. Price Freedomland i. vi. 106 Jesse wound up walking back to the presser to watch the prosecutor. Flanked by various police reps..he fielded the half-hostile, half-timid questions lobbed at him. 2018 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Feb. Chelsea's fine display allowed him to be a little bit more expressive in the post-match presser. 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