a person who mends, repairs, or joins something, esp broken threads on a loom
piecer in American English
(ˈpisər)
noun
a person whose occupation is the joining together of pieces or threads, as in textile work
Word origin
[1815–25; piece + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1815–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: norm, pullout, reamer, trolley, welterweight-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)