Paper Manuf. [in mod.Fr. coucheur (etymol. = prec.) and couchart.]

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  1.  The workman who lays the sheet of pulp on the felt to be pressed (in making hand-made paper).

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1751.  [see COUCH v.1 6].

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1807.  Specif. Cobb’s Patent No. 3084. 3. The … machinery may be worked … without requiring the assistance of a coucher.

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1837.  Whittock, Bk. Trades (1842), 365. (Paper Maker) The Coucher receives the mould from the first man, and turns on the sheet upon a felt or woollen cloth.

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1855.  R. Herring, Paper (1863), 51. Montgolfier contrived three figures of wood to do the work of the vatman, the coucher, and the layer.

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  2.  A mechanical contrivance for doing the same.

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1857.  J. Munsell, Chronol. Paper-Making (1870), 167. A coucher and a scraper combined.

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  Coucher4, var. of COUCHEE.

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