Racket

Draufschläger is an old job title for a metalworker in a forge who assisted the blacksmith in the manufacture of workpieces. The top bat had the task with Hammer tools to machine a workpiece to be forged or scythes to peening , the blacksmith conducted the whole production process.

Around 1786 the daily wage for a racket in Langerfeld is seven stüber .

Dialect forms are, according to Julius Leithäuser im Barmen (Rhenish / Westphalian mixed language area), Dropschleger or Dropklopper (pronounced Droppkloppo, from Draufklopfer).

Individual evidence

^ Günther Voigt: Langerfeld. From the history of a district in Wuppertal. Ed .: Bürgererverein Langerfeld eV, Wuppertal o. J.
^ Julius Leithäuser : Dictionary of the Barmer Dialect: together with an outline of the linguistic theory , 1929

[1] Günther Voigt: Langerfeld. From the history of a district in Wuppertal. Ed .: Bürgererverein Langerfeld eV, Wuppertal o. J.

[2] Julius Leithäuser : Dictionary of the Barmer Dialect: together with an outline of the linguistic theory , 1929