lurrymen

Updated: May 4, 2025

Here are the cotton operatives who work the small proportion of mills still remaining within the bounds of Manchester the spinners, minders, reelers, reed-makers, and the rest; here are the calico-printers and dyers, the warehousemen and lurrymen; and here too are the sellers of 'fents, and all the other thousand and one small trades and occupations which live on and by the poor.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The History of David Grieve