A convict appointed to supervise labouring prisoners.
they do their work guarded by a convict overseer and an armed soldier
Example sentencesExamples
- A convict overseer was hard on a sickly convict.
- He had written to the convict overseer of an iron gang.
- At the first sight of the convict overseer, Miller felt the coldness of contempt and revulsion rising within him.
- A retired officer and his convict overseer went into the bush to meet with the aborigines.
- He'd had been chosen as a convict overseer because he could speak English 'and the native languages'.