platelayer
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A curious story is told at Box of a platelayer, employed in the tunnel some twenty years ago, who with his gang worked there at night, and slept at Box village in the day.
From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
It is obvious the mobility of labor between the occupations of a platelayer and a barrister is not very great.
From Supply and Demand by Henderson, Hubert D.
For a long time there had been a feud between Pritchard and another man of the name of Wynne, a platelayer on the line.
From A Master of Mysteries by Walton, J. Ambrose
A Blackburn platelayer," it is stated, "who has just died at the age of seventy, left £400, which he had accumulated out of his small earnings.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various
Wardell helped to make the present railway, and has worked for fifty-five years as a platelayer on the line.
From The Evolution of an English Town by Home, Gordon
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