Crossword-Solution: SEAMER 6 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The road across Seamer Moor between Ayton and Scarborough was considered sufficiently dangerous for those who travelled late to carry firearms.

The seamer who sews up and hems the bodies of the garments receives thirty cents a dozen, and the "maker"--this being the technical term for the more experienced worker who puts on band and sleeves--receives from ninety cents to one dollar a dozen, though at present the rates run from seventy-five to ninety cents.

Our table, then, stands as follows:-- Cloth for one dozen chemises $1.40 Edging " " 1.35 Thread " " .08 Seamer " " .30 Maker " " .90 ----- Total cost of dozen $4.03 Wholesale price per dozen 5.25 Profit per dozen 1.22 The chemise which sells at seven dollars per dozen has the additional value in quality of cloth and edging, the same price being paid the work-women, this price varying only in very slight degree till the excessively elaborate work demanded by special orders.

The firm for a time made a specialty of "Mother Hubbard" night-gowns, for which they paid one dollar a dozen for "making," this word covering the making and putting in of yoke and sleeves, the "seamer" having in some cases made the bodies at thirty cents a dozen.

Since then, that is, in the autumn of 1857, the rains occasioned a landslip, which nearly obliterated the cavern; a whale thirty feet long was caught floundering in the shallows; and on Seamer Moor, about three miles distant, ancient gold and silver rings and ornaments, beads and broken pottery, and implements of bronze and iron and a skeleton, were found on excavating a chalky knoll.