What does labour-saving mean?
Labour-saving means Alternative form of labor-saving..
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Alternative form of labor-saving..
Not only kitchen utensils, but laundry fittings, and household furnishings generally; including patent labour-saving devices, and newly invented contrivances which were supposed to be of great aid to any housewife.
[…] potato-growing can evidently be more profitably followed by producers on a large scale, having all the advantages of labour-saving appliances, than by market-gardeners, allotment-holders, and other spade-workers on comparatively small line.
Thanks to the adoption by Amsterdam shipyards of standardized designs and labour-saving devices, the fluyt maximized carrying capacity and minimized cost.
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Labour-saving means Alternative form of labor-saving..
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Not only kitchen utensils, but laundry fittings, and household furnishings generally; including patent labour-saving devices, and newly invented contrivances which were supposed to be of great aid to any housewife.
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