What is "improvers"

Usage examples of "improvers".

Hiram Sloane declared she had heard the Improvers meant to plough up all the roadsides and set them out with geraniums.

Levi Boulter warned his neighbors that the Improvers would insist that everybody pull down his house and rebuild it after plans approved by the society.

Roger Pye sent word to the Improvers by his son, John Andrew, that he was going to town and would get their paint for them, the Improvers told John Andrew to tell his father to get 147.

English mechanics seem early to have distinguished themselves as improvers of the lathe.

Among more recent improvers of flax-machinery, the late Sir Peter Fairbairn is entitled to high merit: the work turned out by him being of first-rate excellence, embodying numerous inventions and improvements of great value and importance.