单词 | butty collier |
释义 | > as lemmasbutty collier C1. General attributive in sense 2, as butty collier, butty system, etc. ΚΠ 1828 [see sense 2]. 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 380/2 The miners entertain a bitter dislike to the ‘butty’ system. 1896 Econ. Jrnl. 6 364 It paid the Butty master to be always ‘speeding up’, because he received the product, not of his own extra exertion alone, but of that of all his gang. 1930 Scotsman 14 Aug. 9/7 The butty man was a sort of boss without the status of one. 1947 Econ. Hist. Rev. 17 44 The ‘butty’ element in the piece-master system disappeared and it was replaced for the fairer ‘gang piece work’ system. 1991 R. Reiner Chief Constables iii. viii. 184 My uncle was a miner. My father had to go as a butty boy till he broke away from it and bettered himself considerably. 2016 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 18 Joseph's father was a ‘butty miner,’ which meant that although he was under contract to Holywood Colliery, he was paid not by the hour, but based on how many tons of coal he could dig up. < as lemmas |
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