Meaning of fork grinder | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone whose job is to grind metal forks.

historical

Examples

“There is, perhaps, no trade which is more destructive of human life than that of the fork-grinder was until the peculiar respirator was made obligatory.”

“The fork-grinders of Sheffield worked in an atmosphere of stone and metal particles, where lung disease was endemic […].”

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