fork grinder

noun

noun

Historical Someone whose job is to grind metal forks.

There is, perhaps, no trade which is more destructive of human life than that of the fork-grinder was until the peculiar respirator was made obligatory.1877, John George Wood, Nature's Teachings, page 356:
The fork-grinders of Sheffield worked in an atmosphere of stone and metal particles, where lung disease was endemic […].2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 266:

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