What does fork grinder mean?

fork grinder

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English

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"There is, perhaps, no trade which is more destructive of human life than that of the fork-grinder was until the peculiar respirator was made obligatory."
"The fork-grinders of Sheffield worked in an atmosphere of stone and metal particles, where lung disease was endemic […]."

fork grinders (plural)

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