fork grinder

noun

Someone whose job is to grind metal forks.

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Meanings

nounfork grinder (plural fork grinders)

plural fork grinders

  1. historicalSomeone whose job is to grind metal forks.

    The fork-grinders of Sheffield worked in an atmosphere of stone and metal particles, where lung disease was endemic […].

    2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 266
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    There is, perhaps, no trade which is more destructive of human life than that of the fork-grinder was until the peculiar respirator was made obligatory.

    1877, John George Wood, Nature's Teachings, page 356
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