shotmanshotsmann.
1. A shooter.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > shooter generally
shooter1297
shot1780
shotman1897
1897 Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 1/3 No, 'tain't shotsmen; 'tis a nasty hedge-creeper of a devil, with nets and ferrets.
1900 J. Morley Cromwell ii. i. 117 The shotmen, the musketeers, and harquebusiers.
2. Mining. (See quot. 1905.)
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > other specific coal-mine workers
gates-mana1649
getter1688
coal washer1859
gasman1876
spragger?1881
stoneman1883
thin-miner1892
shotman1905
shiftsman1921
strapper1921
Bevin boy1944
pit yacker1961
1905 Daily News 29 July 5/2 The shotman, whose special duty is to charge the shot-hole ready for firing.
1908 Daily Chron. 15 Jan. 6/7 A shotsman's assistant at the Llanbradach Colliery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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