gold workern.
/ˈɡəʊld ˌwəːkə/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊld ˌwərkər/ 1. A person engaged in the working of gold; a goldsmith.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > worker in gold or silver > goldsmith
goldsmithOE
orfevera1450
gold worker1633
ridge cully1667
aurifex1862
1633 J. Done tr. ‘Aristeas’ Aunc. Hist. Septuagint 32 Commanding the Gold-workers with all speede to finish these things.
1683 J. Pettus tr. L. Ercker ii. xlvi. 216 in Fleta Minor i Goldsmiths and other Gold-workers [Ger. Goltarbeitern].
1750 Gen. Advertiser 10 May Mr. Keen a Tallow-chandler, Mr. Aldridge a Gold-Worker, and Mr. Speed a Painter.
1852 A. Ryland Assay of Gold & Silver 142 A Petition was brought into Parliament, by the Goldworkers of London.
1892 G. Lambert Gold & Silversmith's Art 49 To study with a goldsmith..as a goldworker and chaser.
1937 Illustr. London News 9 Jan. 62/2 It would appear that the ancient gold-workers of Mapungubwe wrought three distinct types of ornaments for personal adornment.
1972 B. J. Meggers Prehist. Amer. iii. 89 The Chimú were the master goldworkers of ancient Peru, producing vessels, ornaments, and decorative items of marvelous beauty, ingenuity, and complexity.
2001 W. Lowes & C. L. McCanless Fabergé Eggs 205/2 In 1876, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he was registered as a gold worker on April 23.
2. A person engaged in the mining or extraction of gold; a gold miner.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > goldminer
gold miner1717
river digger1806
gold-digger1826
gold worker1848
digger1853
reefer1859
goldfielder1898
placer1921
1848 Vermont Watchman 28 Dec. The person who purchased it confidently expected to make a handsome fortune, by simply finding ‘gold placers’, and selling out the right of digging to the gold workers.
1882 H. de Windt On Equator ii. 29 An attack was to be made by the gold-workers on Kuching.
1933 Maryborough (Queensland) Chron. 14 Jan. 8/6 In the Commissioner's opinion between 1920 and 1921 coal workers were paid wages of about £2,430,400 but if they had received the rates of gold-workers they could have been paid £1,026,200 less.
1975 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune 29 Aug. 4 c/2 The people along the way appear like the cast of an exciting American Western..gold workers and homesteaders all with stories of hardship, disaster and quick gain.
2014 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 10 June If the gold workers demanded the same pay as platinum miners, the cost base at the gold mines would be skewed considerably.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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