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Quotation dates: 1842
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PUTTER-UP, n.comb. An employee in a glass-works (see quot.).wm.Sc. 1842 Children in Trades Report (2) i 76:
The next step is becoming a "putter up," i.e. putting the blow-pipe into the furnace and knocking off the bottle from it when the workman has finished it.
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