trunk-makern.
One whose business is the making of trunks (trunk n. 7); often with allusion to the use of the sheets of unsaleable books for trunk-linings.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > makers of other containers or receptacles
cofferer1401
pail maker1559
trugger1566
trunk-maker1701
corver1708
swiller1859
urn-maker?1881
vase-maker1893
1701 Laconics (new ed.) iii. 83 The True-born English Man had died silently among the Grocers and Trunk-makers, if the Libeller had not helped off the Poet.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §38 530 The Trunk~maker, who pretended to be the right Heir Male of the noble Family of the Piercies.
1764 G. Williams in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) I. 321 I hear he has been a pamphleteer, though as yet only to the benefit of the trunk~maker and pastrycook.
1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific xiv. 211 The hitting of the stick is so very rapid, that it resembles nothing that I know of more accurately than a trunk-maker driving in his nails.
1890 Globe 1 July 7/2 ‘All round St. Paul's, not forgetting the trunkmaker's daughter’. By the trunkmaker was understood, in the latter part of the last and the former part of the present century, the depository for unsaleable books.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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