noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person employed to nail the soles onto shoes.
2. 2
   a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books wordnet
3. 3
   A machine for nailing the soles onto shoes.

Synonyms

All synonyms

stemmerstripperstripper

Etymology

From sprig + -er.

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