piecer

plural piecers

1. Someone or something that pieces.

   […] the arrogant Scribes, […] piecers-together of lies, belching out pus and ink.

   2022, Giovanni Papini, Life of Christ

2. EnglandhistoricalobsoleteA child employed in a cotton mill or spinning mill to tie together broken threads.

   The piecers follow the frame in its alternate movements, catching up the broken threads, and skilfully reuniting them

   1854, Chambers's Repository of Instructive and Amusing Tracts

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   William Arrol had little schooling, for, at the early age of nine years, he began work as a piecer in a Johnstone cotton-mill.

   November 1898, A. S. Biggart, “A Biographical Sketch of the Great Bridge Builder”, in Cassier's Magazine

3. in compoundsAn item, especially clothing, made up of the specified number of pieces.

   Jumpers of every type, smart two-piecers.

   1946, Baltimore and Ohio Employes Magazine, page 21

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   Outing ‘two-piecers’ that combine style and comfort in phantom-weight flannels, tropical worsteds and serges show the highest register in favoritism, and the Eiseman Bros.’ make, you know, are the universal favorites.

   1907, Men’s Wear, page 30

   Girls sit unashamed on the sand with their one-piecers pulled down almost to their waistlines to tempt the coppery tan.

   1926, Collier’s, page 10

   Many of these one-piecers have inserts at either the shoulder blades or the middle of the back for extra stretch without bulk.

   1971 September, Patricia Doran, “The Right Ski Wear for the Shape You Are In”, in Ski, page 80

   We were relaxing on our lounge chairs when three very attractive ladies got up from their chairs and converted their two-piece bathing suits into one-piecers by removing their tops.

   2005, Jack McKinney, Robert Gordon, Jack McKinney’s Tales from Saint Joseph’s Hardwood: The Hawk Will Never Die, Sports Publishing, →ISBN, page 21

   They assembled home-cut poles of bamboo—a two-piecer for Tobias, a three-piecer for his father.

   2009, PJ Piccirillo, Heartwood, Middleton Books, →ISBN, page 5