Dyer
['daɪɚ]
Definition
(n.) One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like.
Checker: Virgil
Examples
- Observe the dyer's hand, assimilating itself to what it works in,--or would work in, if anybody would give it anything to do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- John, my next uncle, was bred a dyer, I believe of wool. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Ah, there's better folks spend their money worse, said a firm-voiced dyer, whose crimson hands looked out of keeping with his good-natured face. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Benjamin was bred a silk dyer, serving an apprenticeship in London. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The other three were dyers. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- You know the way in which dyers first prepare the white ground and then lay on the dye of purple or of any other colour. Plato. The Republic.
- By the same statute, a great number of foreign drugs for dyers use are exempted from all duties upon importation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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