sinkmann.
/ˈsɪŋkmən/, U.S. /ˈsɪŋkmən/, Scottish English /ˈsɪŋkmən/α. 1600s sykmen (plural, transmission error), 1600s synkeman, 1900s– sinkman.
β. 1700s–1800s sinksman.
Scottish. Now historical.
A workman employed to sink a mine shaft, well, etc.; = sinker n.1 2.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who sinks shafts
sinkman1678
shaftman?1881
shaftsman?1881
shanker1882
1678 Acct.-bk. Fawside Coal & Salt Wks. 31 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) The synkemen £4 18 s.
1784 Edinb. Advertiser 1 June 358/1 (advt.) Sinksmen wanted... Sinksmen willing to undertake to sink the above Pit, nine feet diameter, in a workmanlike manner, may give in their estimates..at Duddingston Coalliery.
1837 Medico-chirurgical Trans. 20 288 He has been a sinksman and has run many stone-mines, both in coal-fields and lime-quarries, and at other times worked as a collier.
1887 P. McNeill Blawearie 46 Foul air, completely extinguishing..the lights of the sinksmen.
1978 Aberdeen Univ. Rev. Spring 235 Because many small shafts were continually being sunk, a pair of Sinkmen were employed, sometimes they were paid half a mark or merk for an 8 hour day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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