cloth-finisher

Updated: May 7, 2025

So it was of no use that Mr. Lockwood should argue for his going back; he had to yield inevitably, for what man can think to contend long against his better half? From that time all attempt to bring Abraham up as an artificer ended, and he found employment with his father as a cloth-finisher, at which he worked most of his lifetime afterwards.

F. Jewell - Little Abe, or, the Bishop of Berry Brow : Being the Life of Abraham Lockwood

At the time when they were married, Abe was working as a cloth-finisher in a mill near Almondbury common, but not long afterwards, the work at this place failed, and he, with a number of others, was thrown out of employment. This was a sore reverse, for which they were ill-prepared.

F. Jewell - Little Abe, or, the Bishop of Berry Brow : Being the Life of Abraham Lockwood