groovern.
/ˈɡruːvə/, U.S. /ˈɡruvər/ One who or that which grooves.
1. A miner. Now dialect.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun]
minerc1390
digger1531
pioneer1552
mineman1579
groover1610
berman1677
Vulcana1680
pitman1709
pikeman1744
Geordie1861
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 581 A fire begunne by a candle..through the negligence of a grover or digger.
1653 E. Manlove Liberties & Customes Lead-mines Derby 119 To order grovers, make them pay their part, Joyn with their fellows, or their grove desert.
1693 G. Pooley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 673 As to the finding out the Calamine,..the Groovers tell me there is no certainty at all, but that it is a meer Lottery.
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Matlock The only inh. are a few groavers, who dig for lead-ore.
1797 W. G. Maton Observ. Western Counties Eng. II. 131 On Mendip they call their works grooves, and the miners groovers, which are terms that seem to be peculiar to this part of the country.
1824 J. Mander Derbyshire Miners' Gloss. at Grove In Mendip, they call the Miner, a Grovier.
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 41 Gruff, a mine. Gruffer, Gruffier, a miner.
1873 J. Harland Gloss. Words Swaledale Gruve, a lead mine. Gruver, a lead miner.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Grover, a miner who works in an adit level or a lead mine.
2. A tool for making grooves: a gouge. rare.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > other types of cutting equipment > [noun] > gouging tools
scoop1747
scooper1837
scorper1843
groover1865
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times xii. 401 In the South the men have bows and arrows, harpoons,..snow-shovels, groovers [etc.].
Compounds
groover-head n. an appliance for making grooves, attached to a wood-planing machine.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > other specific machine tools > [noun] > planing > attachment for
groover-head1884
1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl.
1892 P. Benjamin Mod. Mechanism 387 A very desirable addition to grooving-machines is the solid expansion groover-head..which is arranged so that without removing or changing the cutters they will extend to double their width.
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