Crossword-Solution: CLASSER 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The sorter or classer stood behind his long table, above and at right angles to the lines of sheep-pens and shearers.

But now the rain is over, let the pressers spin the screw, Let the teamsters back the waggons in again, And we’ll block the classer’s table by the way we’ll put them through, For everything is merry since the rain.

One picks up the fleece in such a manner as to spread it out on the table in one throw; another one pulls off the ends and rolls it so that the wool-classer can see at a glance the length of the wool and weight of the fleece; another, called the "sweeper," gathers into a basket the trimmings and odd pieces.

When I hear of the lone widows of the tenements, who are apt to be very husky, and who work out with no great mental struggle and who have clothes and food given them and who set the children to work as soon as they are able to walk, I feel like getting up in my seat and telling about Helen Bonnington--a plain middle-classer.

Boys gather the fleeces which they throw on a table where they are skirted, the trimmings being divided into "locks and pieces" and "bellies," and the rolled fleece is thrown on another long table at which the wool-classer presides.