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fork grinder en · NOUN
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(historical) Someone 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: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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