Sweater

Definitions

1. A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
2. A similar garment worn for warmth.
   US
3. One who sweats (produces sweat).
4. One who or that which causes to sweat.
5. A diaphoretic remedy.
6. An exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.
   historical
7. One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
   archaic
8. A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded passers-by with his sword-point.
   UK, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“We could slip⟳ away / Wouldn't that be better? / Me with nothing to say⟳ / And you in your autumn sweater”

“The cardiologist who administered Alex's exercise stress⟳ test⟳ on August 21 observed during that test⟳ that Alex was a profuse sweater.”

“We learn⟳ of the cruelty of some school or child-factory from journalists; we learn⟳ it from inspectors, we learn⟳ it from doctors, we learn⟳ it even from shame-stricken schoolmasters and repentant sweaters; but we never learn⟳ it from the children; we never learn⟳ it from the victims.”

“If the piecework system had not existed there never would have⟳ been any sweatees. The men who are sweaters, I am sorry to say⟳, are men who formerly belonged to our union.”

“Among them were the "sweaters" who formed a circle round their prisoner and pricked him with their swords until he sank exhausted to the ground, […]”

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