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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Leveer, n. (F. leveur: according to Littré, in paper-making, the workman who ‘detaches’ the sheets of paper after pressing (and so appar. here), but in cardboard-manufacture, the vatman.) — 1695 Bk. O. Edinb. C. XXV. 63.
[To train ten apprentices for the projected papermills, viz.] two oversiers whose work is att the fatt two cocheers two leveers and two that lookes after the rags [etc.] … and two masters of salls