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Definition of Taskers
1. tasker [n] - See also: tasker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taskers
Literary usage of Taskers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions (1888)
"... otherwise named taskers shalbe sworne to cease [assess] ... otherwise called
taskers. [Here follow several pages of extracts from the proceedings of ..."
2. English Surnames: Their Sources and Significations by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1889)
"3 Our 'Threshers ' and 'taskers ' (' Benedict le Tasker,' HR) busied themselves
in urging the flail. I have only lit upon the latter term once as in ..."
3. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1873)
"4839) are very good ; while among the cast-iron wheels taskers' (No. 4841),
protected by a half-inch wrought-iron tire, is by far the best. keeping the ..."
4. Salopia Antiqua: Or, An Enquiry from Personal Survey Into the 'druidical by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1841)
"taskers, s. harvest labourers, reapers who for the most part work by the acre,
... Ex. " My own men bin a cutting the lent tillin, and the taskers ..."
5. Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used by Georgina Frederica Jackson (1879)
"taskers, »Ъ. pi. harvest-men who -work by the acre, not by the day.—WELLINGTON ;
ELLESMERE. ... taskers' LEASERS, sb. pi. the wives and children of the ..."
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