English regional (chiefly Derbyshire). Mining. A person who uses a chipping hammer to remove unwanted material surrounding or mixed with ore in a…

One who blasts rocks.

Mining. A miner who works ‘on tribute’: see tribute, n. 3c.

In certain industries. Mining. (See quot. 1824.)

Mining. (See quots. 1894 1906.)

(see quot.)

in Coal Mining, the second shift or set of hewers for the day.

Mining. (a) A miner who excavates drifts (see drift, n. 15); (b) a heavy, mounted percussion drill driven by compressed air, used in mining for…

Coal Mining. A person who repairs passages in a mine. Obsolete. rare.

One who stows; one who stows a ship, a stevedore; one of a fishing crew whose work is to stow the net; a miner whose work is to pack up stone.

Mining. (See quots.)

North American colloquial. Originally: a hard-rock miner (now disused). Later: a tough or uncompromising person; a ‘tough nut’.

Used occasionally in various (chiefly slang) senses (see quots.).