Meaning

2 senses

  1. A person employed to nail the soles onto shoes.

  2. A machine for nailing the soles onto shoes.

More definitions
  • a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books

Origin

From sprig + -er.

From sprig + -er.

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Forms

plural: spriggers
Singularsprigger
Pluralspriggers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books:stripperstemmer

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
spreesprigsprightlyspringA1
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