Stockinger

[f. STOCKING sb. + -ER¹.] One who works at a stocking hand-loom, a framework knitter, stocking weaver.

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1741. Manch. School Reg. (1866), I. 16. Thomas son of Thomas Steele of Manchester, Stockiner.

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1817. Rep. Committee Framework-Knitters Petit., 30. I applied for work to what we call a bag-hosier, which is a master stockinger.

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1843. Penny Cycl., XXVII. 181/1. [Stocking-frame]. There are three classes of operatives engaged: the ‘winders,’… the ‘stockingers,’ or ‘framework knitters,’ who work the thread up into a knitted fabric; and the ‘seamers.’

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1873. Echo, 22 Sept., 2/2. When … all the collieries are opened out … the ‘stockinger’ will disappear in favour of the miner.

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