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Persons employed in a factory. We say so many head of cattle; horse-dealers count noses. Races are won by the nose, and factory work by the hand, but cattle have the place of honour.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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