piecener

From piecen +‎ -er?

piecener (plural pieceners)

1. (historical) Someone who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine (a billy) in a wool mill.
2. (historical) A worker in a wool mill who repairs broken yarn by twisting them together.

These jobs were usually done by children, in woll mills in Victorian England.

• piecer

• “piecener”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• enpierce