Meaning of Piecer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone or something that pieces.
2. A child employed in a cotton mill or spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
   England, historical, obsolete
3. An item, especially clothing, made up of the specified number of pieces.
   in-compounds

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] the arrogant Scribes, […] piecers-together of lies, belching out pus and ink.”

“The piecers follow the frame in its alternate movements, catching up the broken threads, and skilfully reuniting them”

“William Arrol had little schooling, for, at the early age of nine years, he began work as a piecer in a Johnstone cotton-mill.”

“Outing ‘two-piecers’ that combine style and comfort in phantom-weight flannels, tropical worsteds and serges show the highest register in favoritism, and the Eiseman Bros.’ make, you know, are the universal favorites.”

“Girls sit unashamed on the sand with their one-piecers pulled down almost to their waistlines to tempt the coppery tan.”

“Jumpers of every type, smart two-piecers.”

“Many of these one-piecers have inserts at either the shoulder blades or the middle of the back for extra stretch without bulk.”

“We were relaxing on our lounge chairs when three very attractive ladies got up from their chairs and converted their two-piece bathing suits into one-piecers by removing their tops.”

“They assembled home-cut poles of bamboo—a two-piecer for Tobias, a three-piecer for his father.”

“Each year, just before winter, daddy bought some long underwear—the one-piecers you see in the movies.”

“For evening he showed a trio of monochrome three-piecers that combined trousers, waistcoats elongated to the ankles, and double-face coats worn shrugged off the shoulders to expose bare arms and back.”

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