gatewayman

English

Etymology

From gateway +‎ -man.

Noun

gatewayman (plural gatewaymen)

1. (mining, historical) A kind of road repair worker in coal mines.
   • 1926, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), The Mining Engineer, page 281:

     I would like to know, for example, the length of time taken to cut the 125 yards of face with the bar machine, the number of fillers employed on the same length of face, and what number of gatewaymen were employed to do the necessary canch work at the face.