Lexicographical Neighbors of Beetlers
Literary usage of Beetlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shipping Board Operations by United States, Congress, House (1920)
"In that yard they had only been beetlers and oakum spinners? ... When we went to
doing our own spinning they put these beetlers in as calkers and I guess ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"... the head man of a company of beetlers; also applied figuratively to any foreman
or man in charge. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1790)
"... is termed bulling; which requiring to begone immediately after the drying,
and being looked upon as a grand gala, a number of beetlers are collected, ..."
4. Arthur Young's Tour in Ireland (1776-1779) by Arthur Young, Arthur Wollaston Hutton, John Parker Anderson (1892)
"... a washing-wheel, on the new construction used in England, is added ; beetlers
are improved in their motion on the cylinder, by giving something more of ..."
5. A Glossary of the Lancashire Dialect by John Howard Nodal, George Milner (1875)
"... the head man of a company of beetlers ; also applied figuratively to any
foreman or man in charge. ..."
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