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lidder en · NOUN

Etymology

From lid + -er.

Meanings

1. A worker on an assembly line responsible for putting on lids.
   • The baskets were slightly over-filled to compensate for settling in transit, so the lidder had to be careful to not damage the peaches. 2009, Floyd Allred, Challenges Met and Some Memories, →ISBN, page 54:
   • For instance, a comparison of the first three lines of Table 18 reveals that for local lidders the lowest time requirement was with the use of a nail dispenser, but without the use of a box-lid clamp (line 3). 1958, R. Lee Chambliss, Labor utilization in apple packing sheds in Virginia, page 30:
   • It may also force a sharper division of labour between sorters, packers and lidders 1986, John Cave Abbott,, Marketing Improvement in the Developing World, →ISBN:
2. A machine that puts on lids.
   • Another recent improvement to this lidder is an adjustable hitch allowing the lidder to be hauled through the vineyards behind flat bed trucks on which loads of packed and lidded boxes are palletized for hauling to shipping points. 1959, Produce Marketing - Volume 2, page 24:
   • The lidder is portable, light in weight and easy to wheel around the field. 1955, The Timberman - Volume 56, page 122:
   • American Seafoods has a new lidder' in Anchorage waiting for a plane, while they've got fish rotting in the hold here and they're having to turn away more because they can't get room on a commercial flight today. 2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, pages 118–119:

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