mender
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"It's a dying trade," 61-year-old Maria Wade said of her job as a "greasy mender" at Alex Begg, a semi-rural mill that has been based in Ayr in southwest Scotland for more than a century.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Regardless of who else joins what is expected to be a crowded field, Klobuchar will likely run as a fence mender, not a firebrand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2019
If Spiegelman seems especially charitable toward women who may have more self-serving reasons to shade history, this generosity is typical of her, the appointed mender of the frayed matrilineal thread.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2016
A series of photographs taken in Torquay around 1900 present people such as a chair mender and a crab salesman.
From Reuters ● Nov. 16, 2015
He was a peddler and mender of toys, the red and gold wagon was his shop and his home, and he had driven into the woods to camp for the night.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
Neither one of them can be fixed by Marlène or Michel, although both are menders of female psyches: Marlène with creams and lotions, Michel with the aquatic exercise classes he leads at a local spa.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2017
As well as fishermen there were fish driers, fish smokers, fish friers, fish buyers and sellers, net menders, boat builders, and boat repairers.
From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2015
Servants, sailors, watermen, farm carters, artisans in the building trade, labourers and road menders, forest workers.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2014
In the country house of Britain's Prime Minister the generation of empire menders was at work.
From Time Magazine Archive
“We saw,” stated Bass, “the local glass menders, who joined us right out of school, not only become experts, but marry and raise children.”
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
