cokemann.
A workman employed in loading or unloading coke, charging a furnace, etc. with coke, or discharging coke from a furnace, etc.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > workers with other materials > [noun] > with coke
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1852 F. S. Williams Our Iron Roads 251 He in return signs the coke-man's book for the amount.
1892 Daily News 11 Mar. 5/8 The cokemen, the mechanics, and the miners in the Durham Miners' Federation.
1920 Glasgow Herald 1 Sept. 7 Cokemen employed on by-product plants at collieries.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §049 Cokeman..works at box or bunker where ‘breeze’..is collected after screening.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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