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"ref": "1883, The Paper Mills Directory of England, Sotland, & Ireland, and Year book fo the Paper-Making Trade For 1883",
"text": "When the clamp is brought down to show where the knife will cut, the cutterman has merely to press the treadle slightly, and if satisfied that the knife will fall exactly where it is wanted, he can start the Machine without releasing the clamp.",
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"ref": "1936, The Industrial arbitration reports, New South Wales",
"text": "While the paper is running through the machine the cutterman must carefully watch for creases, which indicate that the roll is running too loose and necessitate the application of resin, and for drags in the paper and breaks in the roll.",
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"ref": "1955, Reports of H.M. Inspectors of Mines Under the Coal Mines Act, page 14",
"text": "The cutting chain guard was not being used and the cutterman had not ensured that his assistant was clear.",
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"ref": "2013, E. L. Trist, G. W. Higgin, H. Murray, Organizational Choice (RLE: Organizations)",
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"One who is employed to operate an industrial cutting tool."
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"ref": "2006, Dana Stabenow, Blindfold Game",
"text": "She would have her cutterman's pin before the year was out, denoting seven years' sea duty, which included two years' command of a one-ten white hull out of Eureka, California.",
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"ref": "2011 January, “Cuttermen: In Memoriam”, in MotorBoating, volume 204, number 1, page 13",
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"text": "While the paper is running through the machine the cutterman must carefully watch for creases, which indicate that the roll is running too loose and necessitate the application of resin, and for drags in the paper and breaks in the roll.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"text": "The cutting chain guard was not being used and the cutterman had not ensured that his assistant was clear.",
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},
{
"ref": "2013, E. L. Trist, G. W. Higgin, H. Murray, Organizational Choice (RLE: Organizations)",
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"ref": "2006, Dana Stabenow, Blindfold Game",
"text": "She would have her cutterman's pin before the year was out, denoting seven years' sea duty, which included two years' command of a one-ten white hull out of Eureka, California.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011 January, “Cuttermen: In Memoriam”, in MotorBoating, volume 204, number 1, page 13",
"text": "Visitors to the site will see that alongside the names, a poem titled Hurrah for the Sea and a cutterman insignia have also been engraved onto the plaques.",
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