coalcutterman
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From coalcutter + -man.
Noun
[edit]coalcutterman (plural coalcuttermen)
- The operator of a coalcutter.
- 1943, Mineworkers' Federation of Great Britain., Annual Conference, page 65:
- There were five other fatalities on conveyor faces, involving two fillers, a chargeman,- stoneman, and a coalcutterman.
- 1949, Great Britain Ministry of Fuel and Power, Reports of H.M. Inspectors of Mines Under the Coal Mines Act, 1911:
- One was to a coalcutterman who was caught and mutilated by the coalcutter picks whilst the jib was being withdrawn from under the coal.
- 1955, Reports of H.M. Inspectors of Mines Under the Coal Mines Act, page 14:
- The cutting chain of a longwall coalcutter was reversed in an attempt to free the jib which had become fast, and an assistant coalcutterman was caught by the moving picks.