A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.

ORDER XII.—TEXTILE WORKERS

Sub-order 1.—Textile Workers

360.—Wool Sorters

dayman (wool sorting): general term for any man employed in wool sorting and paid by time, and not at piece rates.
looker-over (wool sorting), wool looker-over ; wool taker-off: examines and checks wool already sorted by wool sorter or wool classer q.v.
merino sorter: a wool sorter q.v. who sorts merino wool, a tine long stapled wool, suitable for combing.
mohair sorter: as for wool sorter.
new clip sorter: as for wool sorter.
wool classer: sorts whole fleeces, keeping coarse fleeces apart from fine, long-wooled from short-wooled, heavy from light, and dirty from scoured; cf. wool sorter.
wool sorter, wool stapler: breaks up fleece into various qualities, according to length, soundness and fineness of fibre; also sorts hand-pulled skin wool.
wool sorter's apprentice: assists wool sorter q.v., works under his direction, and learns trade from him.
wool taker-off: see looker-over.

From: A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016. This text is in the Public Domain.