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dyer
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Word definitions for dyer in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c. (late 13c. as a surname), agent noun from dye (v.).
Usage examples of dyer.
After them march the guilds and trades and trainbands with flying colours: coopers, bird fanciers, millwrights, newspaper canvassers, law scriveners, masseurs, vintners, trussmakers, chimneysweeps, lard refiners, tabinet and poplin weavers, farriers, Italian warehousemen, church decorators, bootjack manufacturers, undertakers, silk mercers, lapidaries, salesmasters, corkcutters, assessors of fire losses, dyers and cleaners, export bottlers, fellmongers, ticketwriters, heraldic seal engravers, horse repository hands, bullion brokers, cricket and archery outfitters, riddlemakers, egg and potato factors, hosiers and glovers, plumbing contractors.
Sir Pertinax and Gurth the Dyer had broken through their assailants and made good their escape.
Collum Dyer, veteran of many campaigns, dealer and risker of death, was as frightened as a child.
Dyer came from near the Brennish borderlands in the east and had never seen the old Northmarch Road.
People criticized General Dyer but certainly his action at Amritsar had nipped what could have have been a nasty bit of trouble in the bud.
Dyer Construction Company of California moved in its skilled engineers and the Union Pacific started building a spur down which the beets would arrive and along which the bags of sugar would depart.
After some searching around, Dyer recognized a gallery that led to the area where the Decoupler computers were situated and near which the branch conduit from the main shaft terminated.
Next, the dyer needed to prepare the dyebath, either by boiling and straining plant matter or by grinding prepared dyestuffs.
In addition to water and fuel, the dyers needed copper vats for preparing dyebaths, wooden vats for dyeing the fabric, furnaces for heating the water and boiling the dyes, hooks, rods, barrows and winches to move the fabric around, tools for grinding the dyestuffs, the dyestuffs themselves, mordants, and a building large enough to use and store it all.
It is truly astonishing what a great range of shades can thus be dyed by using two or three dyes suitably mixed together, and one of the things which go to making a successful dyer and colourist is the grasping of this fact by careful observation, and working accordingly.
I spoke to you Wednesday about Father Dyer, I described the authentic Gemini M.
Dyers and weavers devoured alum, and so did glassmakers and papermakers among others.
Sybella Honoria Masham Dyer, Dowager Duchess of Wessex and grandmother of the present Duke, had no interest in the beauties of the English countryside.
Treating the wool with chlorine has a material influence in increasing its capacity for taking dye-stuffs, and although but little attention has been paid to this circumstance by wool dyers, yet among wool printers it has come largely into use, and enables them to produce fuller and faster shades than would otherwise be possible.
The heavy industry, the large mills, the dyers, the tanners, the wagonwrights, and the rest, were not evident.