erector

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He told the court that he would often work anti-social hours as a sign erector to get access to shops when they were closed.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2024

“It comes apart like a big erector set.”

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

The official Korean Central News Agency said Kim visited a factory that produces transport erector launchers, or TELs, without saying when he went or where the factory is.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 4, 2024

In his free time, Calleia built Meccano erector set models and made models of military equipment, bridges and machinery.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2023

Its application is more general upon planing machine work than any other, although it is frequently used by the lathe hand or turner, and by the vice hand and erector.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua