What was a Piecener?

piecener in British English (ˈpiːsənə) noun. (formerly, in cotton or woollen mills) someone (often a child) whose job was to join broken threads together.

Is Woollen an adjective?

Made of wool.

What does a Doffer do?

A doffer is someone who removes (“doffs”) bobbins, pirns or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones. Historically, spinners, doffers, and sweepers each had separate tasks that were required in the manufacture of spun textiles.

What was a cotton Piecer?

Piecer – Worker in a cotton warehouse, who would lean over the spinning machines to repair broken threads (piecing them together). The work was normally done by children, since they had small fingers that could tie the broken threads together with ease.

Is it woollen or woolen?

Woolen (American English) or woollen (Commonwealth English) is a type of yarn made from carded wool. Woolen yarn is soft, light, stretchy, and full of air. Woolen yarn is in contrast to worsted yarn, in which the fibers are combed to lie parallel rather than carded, producing a hard, strong yarn.

What occupation is a doffer?

Doffers: the name given to the mostly women who doffed or tied up the full spindles of linen thread and quickly replaced this with a fresh empty spindle.

What is the function of doffer in carding machine?

The function of the doffer is to collect the cotton from the cylinder in a uniform fleece, which is delicately removed to form the card web. The doffer has a diameter of 686 mm, which is the large component next to the cylinder in the carding machine (as seen in Figure).

What did Piecer do at the factory?

What did an Overlooker do?

While the children try to catch up to their comrades by doing their work with the speed of the machine running, the brutal overlooker will frequently beat them unmercifully, and I have frequently seen them strike the children, knocking them off their stools and sending them spinning several feet on the greasy floor.

What does it mean to be swollen?

adjective. If a part of your body is swollen, it is larger and rounder than normal, usually as a result of injury or illness. My eyes were so swollen I could hardly see. Synonyms: enlarged, bloated, puffy, inflamed More Synonyms of swollen.

Is woollen British or American?

For the adjective meaning made of wool, woolen is the preferred spelling in American English, though woollen appears about a tenth of the time. In the main varieties of English from outside North America, woollen prevails by a large margin. Both spellings are common in Canadian writing.