tucker
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tucker englanniksi
Tucker
To out or exhaust a person or animal.
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One who or that which tucks.
1914, US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, ''Conciliation, Arbitration, and Sanitation in the Dress and Waist Industry of New York City'', ''Bulletin of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, No. 145'', page 108,
- Nature of Grievance:
- : Discrimination. Firm, after having had a long controversy with its tuckers, laid off the whole tucking department for a week. Union maintained it was a clear case cf discrimination against the tuckers on account of the recent controversy.
- Determination:
- : Complaint of the union was sustained. Tuckers were paid the amount of money they were deprived of through being discriminated against, $158.90.
Work that scarcely yields a wage.
Lace or a piece of cloth in the neckline of a dress.
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A fuller; one who fulls cloth.