Lexicographical Neighbors of Furlers
Literary usage of Furlers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Apprenticeship and Industrial Education by Paul Howard Douglas (1921)
"They comprise practically all of the furlers, rovers, drawers-in, sewers and
menders, spoolers, and twisters. Loom fixers are again entirely men, ..."
2. The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 by Samuel Eliot Morison (1921)
"... to be 'yard-arm furlers' and 'buntline reefers' — in other words, malingerers.
Others watched their chance to start a mutiny; and yet others, ..."
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