lidder

English

Etymology

lid +‎ -er

Noun

lidder (plural lidders)

1. A worker on an assembly line responsible for putting on lids.
   • 1958, R. Lee Chambliss, Labor utilization in apple packing sheds in Virginia, page 30:

     For instance, a comparison of the first three lines of Table 18 reveals that for local lidders the lowest time requirement was with the use of a nail dispenser, but without the use of a box-lid clamp (line 3).

   • 1986, John Cave Abbott,, Marketing Improvement in the Developing World, →ISBN:

     It may also force a sharper division of labour between sorters, packers and lidders

   • 2009, Floyd Allred, Challenges Met and Some Memories, →ISBN, page 54:

     The baskets were slightly over-filled to compensate for settling in transit, so the lidder had to be careful to not damage the peaches.

2. A machine that puts on lids.
   • 1955, The Timberman - Volume 56, page 122:

     The lidder is portable, light in weight and easy to wheel around the field.

   • 1959, Produce Marketing - Volume 2, page 24:

     Another recent improvement to this lidder is an adjustable hitch allowing the lidder to be hauled through the vineyards behind flat bed trucks on which loads of packed and lidded boxes are palletized for hauling to shipping points.

   • 2000, Dana Stabenow, Midnight Come Again, →ISBN, pages 118–119:

     American Seafoods has a new lidder' in Anchorage waiting for a plane, while they've got fish rotting in the hold here and they're having to turn away more because they can't get room on a commercial flight today.

Anagrams

• Riddle, dreidl, riddle