Word Meanings - SPULLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.

Related words: (words related to SPULLER)

• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• INSPECTIVE
  Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• INSPECTRESS
  A female inspector.
• INSPECTORATE
  Inspectorship.
• INSPECTORIAL
  Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• EMPLOYEE
  One employed by another.
• EMPLOYE
  One employed by another; a clerk or workman in the service of an employer.
• INSPECT
  pref. in- in + specere to look at, to view: cf. F. inspecter, fr. L. 1. To look upon; to view closely and critically, esp. in order to ascertain quality or condition, to detect errors, etc., to examine; to scrutinize; to investigate; as, to inspect
• INSPECTION
  1. The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully; a strict or prying examination; close or careful scrutiny; investigation. Spenser. With narrow search, and with inspection deep, Considered every creature. Milton. 2. The act
• EMPLOYABLE
  Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.
• EMPLOY
  implicate, engage; in + plicare to fold. See Ply, and cf. Imply, 1. To inclose; to infold. Chaucer. 2. To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as:
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• UNEMPLOYED
  1. Nor employed in manual or other labor; having no regular work. 2. Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital.
• SUPERINSPECT
  To over see; to superintend by inspection. Maydman.
• PREEMPLOY
  To employ beforehand. "Preëmployed by him." Shak.
• REINSPECT
  To inspect again.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• DISEMPLOY
  To throw out of employment. Jer. Taylor.
• REINSPECTION
  The act of reinspecting.