Beetler?

[Merry]

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What's a beetler?

As in this trade directory entry for 1891:


•Hugh Cawley and Co, bleachers, dyers, beetlers and finishers, Adelphi Dye Works, Walker street, Adelphi, Salford; Manchester

[ElizabethHerts]

I found this, Merry:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,416749/prev_next,next.html

[WendyPusey]

Found this on another forum.


Operated a beetling machine, used in the textile industry as part of the finishing process. The cloth would be pounded with heavy weights to flatten and close up the threads, thereby producing a sheen.

[Merry]

Thanks Elizabeth and Wendy :)