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Meanings of sprigger in English

A worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books.

Synonyms
Examples for "stripper"
Examples for "stripper"
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I didn't want to help her become a better stripper at all.
How to make love like a porn star
2
How many followers did Zola have before her stripper story went viral?
Ebony
3
I asked, Wasn't that the name of some famous stripper, Peaches Galore?
Lit: a memoir
4
She'd have to go back to the stripper pole and escort jobs.
Phoenix noir
5
Never eat food that's also a stripper's name: Cookie, Candy, Cupcake .
Skinny italian: eat it and enjoy it
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The master stemmer can find rests where most people cannot.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
The cost of a stemmer and cleaner complete is $80, f. o. b. cars at Fresno.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889
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Dick Savage, twenty, the baker's apprentice; Will Joyce, twenty-two, journeyman blacksmith; and Henry Taylor, twenty-four, tobacco-stemmer-werethe other three.
What Is Man? and Other Essays
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Raisins of the third class are sent to the stemmer and a large proportion of them then go to the seeder.
History of California
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Piles of the brown tobacco stood beside each stemmer, bales of it were stacked, ceiling-high, at the farther end of the room, awaiting their attentions.
V. V.'s Eyes