buttonmaking en · NOUN
Etymology
From button + making.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The manufacture of buttons.
Catastrophically for Dorset buttony, Ashton's buttonmaking machine was invented in 1850 and proudly exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. As a consequence of this invention, the Dorset cottage industry collapsed virtually overnight […]
2010, David Hilliam, Little Book of Dorset:
Synonyms
Translations (1)
unm kënupheokàn (production of buttons)