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DYER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dyer mean?
• DYER (noun)
The noun DYER has 1 sense:
1. someone whose job is to dye cloth
Familiarity information: DYER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone whose job is to dye cloth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("dyer" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Derivation:
dye (color with dye)
Context examples
There is not only the herd, but the shearer and brander, and then the dresser, the curer, the dyer, the fuller, the webster, the merchant, and a score of others.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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