buttonmaking
nounEtymology From button + making.
1
The manufacture of buttons.
- Catastrophically for Dorset buttony, Ashton's buttonmaking machine was invented in 1850 and proudly exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851. As a consequence of this invention, the Dorset cottage industry collapsed virtually overnight […]2010, David Hilliam, Little Book of Dorset:
- Synonyms
- buttony