PoorCotton Weaver
The Norton version gives an earlier set of words the Poor Cotton Weaver which refers to the hand loom weaving.
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- Old Billy O' Bent, he were telling us long
- We mayn't had better times if I'd nobbut held m' tongue.
- Well, I held m' tongue til I near lost m' breath,
- And I feel in m' hear that I'II soon clem to death
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There is also a version called the Oldham Weaver in Mary Barton, by Mrs Gaskell in 1848.
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Famous quotes containing the word weaver:
“Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)