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The original craft of the Clothworkers was the finishing of woven woollen cloth: fulling it to mat the fibres and remove the grease, drying it on tenter frames (from which derives the expression ‘to be on tenterhooks’), raising the nap with teasels and shearing it to a uniform finish. Clothworkers include: * Dubbere - cloth dubber, one who raises the nap of cloth* Felter - cleaner and thickener...
Tucker Surname Meaning English (southwestern): occupational name from Middle English tuker(e) toker(e) ‘tucker fuller’ a derivative of tuken ‘to torment beat’ (Old English tūcian) for someone who fulled and finished cloth. This name for the occupation was characteristic of the West Country. Compare Fuller and Walker and see also Tuckerman . Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Tuachair ‘descendan...
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