preeming

The task of cleaning the teasel-rods and handles in cloth manufacture.

Noun

  1. The task of cleaning the teasel-rods and handles in cloth manufacture.
    • After the preeming period, the lads are put either to the gig-machines, or to the lewises in the cutting or shearing-room. - 1835, Andrew Ure, The philosophy of manufactures, page 203:

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of preem