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metal-man 1. A worker or dealer in metal; also, a miner.
1566Eng. Ch. Furniture (Peacock) 71 Sensors ij crewetes and ij handbells—Robt Warren..being then churchwarden had who sold theim to a metle man. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. x. (1651) 111 A Smith, or a Metalman, the pot's never from's nose. 1658Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 30 Drowsy dotards, habited like the mettal-men. 2. A man made of metal.
1591Sylvester Ivry 344 Whence coms this iron spawn? These metal-men? 3. ‘One who repairs underground roads’ (Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal-mining 1883). |