fork grinder

English

Noun

fork grinder (plural fork grinders)

  1. (now historical) Someone whose job is to grind metal forks.
    • 1877, John George Wood, Nature's Teachings, page 356:
      There is, perhaps, no trade which is more destructive of human life than that of the fork-grinder was until the peculiar respirator was made obligatory.
    • 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 266:
      The fork-grinders of Sheffield worked in an atmosphere of stone and metal particles, where lung disease was endemic […].
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