rehandler

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

rehandle +‎ -er

Noun[edit]

rehandler (plural rehandlers)

  1. One who rehandles something.
    • 2009, Jacqueline Jones, Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family, from Slavery to the Present:
      After the war, black women continued to labor as “rehandlers,” sorting, stripping, stemming, and hanging tobacco leaves—all part of the redrying process.