English
Etymology
From paper + maker.
Noun
papermaker (plural papermakers)
- A person or company that makes paper.
- (UK, slang, obsolete) A person who gathers rags to sell.
Derived terms
Translations
a person that makes paper
- Arabic: وَرَّاق (warrāq), مُوَرِّق m (muwarriq)
- Esperanto: paperfaristo
- French: papetier (fr) m
- Ido: paperifisto (io), paperisto (io)
- Latin: chartarius m
- Polish: papiernik m, papierniczka f
- Swedish: pappersmakare (sv) c
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References
- (rag-gatherer): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary